OMG, Aussie bonds

Friday, 2 August 2019

The rally roared higher as RBA cuts shifted forward on the trade war with yields at record lows across the curve:

The curve is now inverted right out past the 7 year. The long end is flattening fast. Indeed the cash rate to 10 year is nearly inverted:

Spreads to the US actually tightened as its own yields cratered:

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.