ASX freefalls from impossible heights

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The bloodbath sloshes on. The AUD gapped lower this morning:

Bonds are hovering at enormous gains:

XJO gapped lower and the next chart support is in the mid-5000s:

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S&P futures are hosing the Fed:

Big Iron is melting down as FMG’s broken head and shoulders top gaps into madness:

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Big Gas is burning:

Big Gold is poo:

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Big Banks trap door:

Big Realty can fall so much further:

The whole bloody bourse can. It’s now trading just below a massively expensive 17x forward before any earnings have been discounted. In the GFC it bottomed at 8x after discounting.

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The recent dancing blowoff has fallen straight into a bottomless pit.

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.