Australian dollar wrestles 70 cents as stocks fly

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DXY was weak last night:

The Australian dollar was up against DMs:

Mixed against EMs:

Gold was firm:

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Oil too. If Brent gores higher, shale will turn on:

Dirt flamed out:

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Miners to the moon:

EM stocks bounced:

Junk fakeflated:

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Bonds remain crushed:

As stocks threaten new highs:

The only chart that matters is showing the AUD slowing versus stocks again:

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There wasn’t much in news. More scuttlebutt around useless vaccines and more Robinhood accounts to drive stocks.

Meanwhile, the supposed rationale for the rally, the “v-shaped recovery”, has died everywhere but China:

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As the virus runs wild in the US:

Who knows how long it will take for stocks to wake up to the fact?

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In the meantime, expect the Australian dollar to grind higher.

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.