Finally, RBA pounds Australian dollar

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The Australian dollar has so far gotten what was pretty clearly dovish message from the RBA statement. More cuts and/or QE are coming:

Bonds are bid even if a bit slower on the uptake:

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Stocks like it too:

Though not Big Iron which is down with more sell side downgrades. Those head and shoulders patterns are scary:

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Big Gas is sinking:

Big Gold also looks pretty scary:

Big Banks are struggling as their margins go up in smoke:

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The big winners are the real estate listing media scum:

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Let’s see how we go tonight. Banks will hit the Aussie if they hold back cut. DXY is also very strong so some chance of new lows for the AUD.

About the author
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.