ASX bath of blood recedes for banks

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The Australian dollar is weak through the morning:

Bonds have eased but not much following the deflationary Depressionberg Unstimulus:

ASX likes it for no apparent reason. Unless you employ lots of young people to rort the taxpayer it’s a bust. It looks neutral technically:

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Big Iron is up. I’m still waiting for more seasonal downside when China reopens tomorrow but it’s well possible that I’m wrong:

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Big Gas is still buggered, which is just great:

Big Gold is up again, led by new star NST:

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The real news is banks are making a run to break out of their downtrend. Paint me skeptical. The Depressionberg Unstimulus will force more RBA action but it will also gut household incomes and any property rebound is going to be very troubled in Sydney and Melbourne as bank margins are eroded by ZIRP:

I see them as structurally fooked now.

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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.