Australian dollar clubbed as stretched markets snap

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DXY was up again Friday night:

Australian dollar snapped lower:

Though couldn’t outpace EMs:

Gold held:

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Oil stalled:

Metals puked a little:

Miners more:

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EM was OK:

Junk too:

As US bonds were bid:

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Driving stocks to new highs:

Pretty much as expected. We are increasingly headed into choppy forex conditions as very stretched markets try to work off some excesses. EUR longs are still very high:

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And they are being buffeted by rising COVID cases:

As US cases fall:

But the US recovery is still stuffed:

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And DXY is also hurt by Trump’s last stand:

Looks like a lot more wood to chop for DXY to keep falling and the Australian dollar to keep rising.

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.