ASX fakeflation melts up

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It’s something else now. The AUD is in an unruly melt-up:

As the suicidal RBA snores, bonds are selling too:

XJO looks positively sober next to the currency. Not long now before it is crushed by it:

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Big Iron is one of the few in a real-life boom:

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Big Gas is lagging oil which has moved very fast:

Big Gold is being left behind but if DXY keeps falling it will resume:

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We’re long all three given they are the only plays we can find with any substance.

Banks are rising again:

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Big Chunt, which has no listings, is priced for a boom:

Outside of specific commodity plays, it’s all fakeflation and, in due course, will bust just as spectacularly.

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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.