ASX bath of blood returns for banks

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AUD is struggling this morning:

Bonds are bid and the yield curve has been crushed:

Stocks have erased a poofteenth of the recent ramp:

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Big Iron is soft:

Big Gas too:

Big Gold needs a breakout to restore faith:

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Big Banks have reversed down with the yield curve. This nicely illustrates the market’s bizarre fakeflation as the Fed must squash rates for a dead economy, killing banks in the process, so why is the curve and banks taking off? Because some artificially stupid algo says they should?

Big Chunt has run out of petrol:

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A touch of reality about today’s action.

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.