ASX bath of blood turns gold rush

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The Australian dollar is gapping higher this morning on the Biden euphoria:

Bonds have sold a little too:

Stocks have broken out of their bullish ascending triangle pattern:

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The recent month of value rotation is going into reverse as deflation returns with the Republican senate. Real assets are soaring. Big Iron is up:

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Though Big Gas is down and is in trouble as the Iran oil gusher warms up for a return:

Big Gold to the moon:

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The biggest victim is Big Banks which are wandering aimlessly without a steepening curve:

While growth is back with the tech bubble:

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As the virus guts the Atlantic economies all over again, this time without enough fiscal support, we’ve returned to central banks and deflation assets with a bullet.

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.