See the latest Australian dollar analysis here:
Asian stocks have rebounded firmly across the region, in a correlated response to the bounce (aka BTFD) on Wall Street overnight as central bankers soothed nerves. Bitcoin is relatively stable, trading in a tight trading range again, currently hovering just above the $50K level with the four hourly chart showing the key $48 and $51 support and resistance levels going ahead:

The Shanghai Composite is up 0.6% going into the close, currently at 3585 points while the Hang Seng Index has bounced back, closing 1.6% higher to be back above 30000 points. Japanese markets saw a similar bid, with the Nikkei 225 taking back its previous losses to finish 1.6% higher at 30168 points as the USDJPY pair is slowly pushing up against the previous weekly high above the 106 handle:

The ASX200 was also able to clawback most of its previous losses, finishing 0.8% higher at 6834 points while the Australian dollar remains strongly bid above the 79 cents level against USD and ready to crack through the magical 80 handle later tonight:

Eurostoxx and S&P futures are tracking a lot higher before the European opening session with the four hourly chart of the S&P500 showing that decisive break above the downtrend line from last week’s high above 3950 points, which it needs to get back to soon to fill this very small and short term dip:

The economic calendar includes the US 4Q GDP estimate, durable goods orders for January and pending home sales data.
- Macro Afternoon - April 1, 2021
- Macro Morning - April 1, 2021
- Macro Afternoon - March 31, 2021
Tish!
avoiding boom?
MtGox
Magic the Gathering online exchange. Ponzi or visionary?
Don’t say why not both, it’s tired and true…
But but what about Hero Quest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx8sl2uC46A
😂😂 Well played
Ponzinary. Those weebs treat it like crack. Throw in a Warhammer exchange and you’re set for eternity.
a chain if opportunists, getting in over their heads and passing on to the next, who got in over their heads, rinse and repeat. Until it really went pear shaped
Breaking News: Reusa’s house parties exposed as lies
https://www.9news.com.au/world/creepy-mannequin-house-lake-tahoe-duplex-real-estate-house-sale/46130158-4615-4ad6-a7aa-7fed0abfc399#3
If they were all Real Dolls I’d buy the place sight unseen, like right now!
Steam clean?
It is not as if it is a Minister’s office.
Everyone I know is just losing so much faith. I dont know what to tell them most days.
Even the hard working people I know who do all they can to show an optimistic face are seeing nothing but slammed doors in there faces. People are downheartened and even with retraining, there’s nothing they can do about it.
I find Im pulling away from people because its all starting to give me that suicide feeling. They just dont know any way out of this, no matter how hard they work.
I think ultimately, its instability thats going to end up undoing all of this. People are just going to get fed up.
I mentioned to a friend about the young guys living out of there Vans in Byron Bay. Instead of a house, I think he’s having serious considerations to buying himself his own liveable van. He just has no faith in the future.
I just cant understand how there arent suicides coming out from all of this. Im pretty certain that Australias Suicide Data makes about as much sense as our Unemployment Data. Its manipulated, fake and bogus.
Rule number one of neoliberalism = because markets …
Rule two of neoliberalism = die …
I like rule #2
That is a bastardization of what Darwin argued due to Spencer’s popularity … it did not last and he grew conservative in his view post popularity with the elitists of the day …
Why don’t you sell one of your bitcoins and invite some hot chicks over?
Its only Darwins Law when Markets arent being manipulated.
Migration is Manipulation. This ISNT NeoLiberalism its Market Control.
You forward Spencer’s bastardized Lamarckian ideology which fails to reconcile the shared or cooperative opinion of what Darwin was banging on about … go figure the elites picked the former …
Its only Darwins Law when Markets arent being manipulated.
Every market is an arbitrary human construct.
What do you mean by manipulated?
Mate you sound really, seriously, clinically depressed. I urge you to get some help. The majority of the world does not feel the way you do.
Just remember that everything passes. If things seem insurmountable just hang on because the sun always rises and life can and will change for the better.
Go live in a tent if money is bringing you down. Financial security as guarantee of happiness is a hoax. Set your heart free, stop worrying and change up until you feel happy. Nothing wrong with living out of a tent or a car as long as they are in a decent location. I did it for years and was literally the best time of my life.
Focus on being happy and everything else will fall into place.
Good luck.
Im not depressed. Im angry. There’s a difference and you should really learn it.
Whether angry or depressed, you keep going on and on about suicide. This post mentions it twice. I’ve seen more references to suicide in your posts over the last month or so than I have in every other post by every contributor on MB in the last ten years or so that I’ve been coming here.
That’s what some people would consider to be an “indicator”.
You seem like a thoughtful bloke with views worth listening to, but your focus on self-harm has obviously been noticed by me and others here and it’s not real good.
The majority of the world would string you up by the nads for sucking oligarch d!ck – I’d direct them 💪
Mate , Covid left the door to your office cage open and you’ve misinterpreted your accidental freedom as a personal accomplishment. You ain’t fit to be directing anything brother. Try getting your head around the fact that you’ve subjected yourself to the preceding year’s imprisonment in the first place.
Choose your career , choose your consequences.
Bwaaahaaahaahaa mate you don’t even have to foggiest idea of much value was added to my “industry” last year as we sat at home you dumb worthless can’t contribute sh!t fishtard
And Migi ? You can get stomped Skippy
You thirty-six year old curl headed fxg, blow me
You don’t know me, you’re too rekt ,let go
It’s over, nobody chooses to live in metro
Ahhh,…to be 36 again.
Sigh
You need to surround yourself with a better class of friends that ooze success!
Australians dont make good friends?
Maybe foreigners or Chinese you think?
I love your use of the word ooze.
Respect.
Most of the van folks at Byron are merely on surfing or general holidays
When you consider rents so ridiculous in this Country… and a vans what, $40k ? It makes a lot of sense to just ditch your rental apartment and just go for the van.
If you factor in that housing is practically non-existent for the young in the short to medium term, then living in a van seems like a great idea.
Just park it out bush, somewhere near a creek or a forest and Im sure life would be great.
When you think about it seriously, its far cheaper then owning a house in this country.
There’s really no future for the young. I’ve seen enough young die in this Country and quite frankly, Im sick of seeing it.
The arrogant attitudes that exist in this Country are beyond belief.
Im surprised a politician hasnt been assassinated.
Mathias, I notice your comments. You’ve got your head screwed on right. There are people out there who feel like you. I do.
I get angry too. If more people got angry like you maybe things wouldn’t have devolved the way they have. It really is a kind of evil.
But just bear in mind that anger can be cancerous. The two greatest assets that exist are health and time. Don’t let anger rob you of both. The world needs sane moral people like you.
Mate you’re a legend. Every conversation is a chance to spread the word. We want to be a nation. The young must be taught to stand up for themselves.
There is only one cure:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEq-r2agqc
😘
People on here gather because they think likeminded. Sometimes an echo chamber is not great. Sometimes you make friends for similar reasons. There are a whole lot of views out there. Sometimes it can help to turn off the news for a few days or stop reading MB for a while. Good luck. And if it really is seeming hopeless for a long time, I don’t say this lightly, talk to your GP. Not suggesting your feelings are not justified or irrational but if it is also something in your biochemistry GPs have processes, training, people or drugs that may help. It can be hard to see yourself properly from the inside sometimes. And yes a lot of people feel like you, you are not alone. Start a political party if you want. It could be a while until things change and you have got to try and be as happy as you can be in the interim.
Sounds like u and your mates need attude adjustments electric shock therapy to the brain and gulluvers should saffice
Powell needs to be hung, flayed, ridiculed, slapped, dipped in tar, feathered, drawn and quartered. Head needs to displayed on the bonnet of a Tesla.
He is ensuring markets don’t turn rational.
If humans are largely irrational …. ummm how can markets be rational ….
Stop being rational………
You know back in the day … not so far ago … people had to undergo some training before entering bids on exchanges … had to show some competency in understanding the gravity of making choices and how that could not only effect them but everyone else …. then it was opened up to day traders due to computational at home freedom …. Frickin Greenspan’s put and the dotcom Johns Laws level machinations and here we are … but freedoms and liberties …. am I right …
If you’re not free to die freezing in your reasonably affordable house Texas, or free to pay for those that did by wearing the costs, are you even really a Libertardian?
Having spent time in Texas its sorta like a Cecil Blount DeMille movie …
A few years ago I met a Califorian anglican pastor ,
when the conversation turned to Texas he opine”Sometimes I wish we could just sell Texas “
Good old dependable Skippy, can always be counted upon for some bankster deflection.
Markets everywhere are FUBAR due to central bank intervention, but no, it’s the people’s fault.
Good old simpletons can barely remember yesterday forget the decades of breathers that rolled back any FDR era policy and the Fed is staffed by quasi monetarists. BTW I thought banks were licensed by the State so ….
When you go all-in on a highly leveraged Wealth Effect policy, asset prices become the economy and must be protected.
And here is me thinking he was actually supposed to help the economy, impacted businesses and people out of work…….
Yep, Gamestop up 104% overnight. Everything is chasing momentum and fear off missing out, except one asset class, Gold and Gold miners.
Niko?
Niko must have bought a house, did not see him for a while
or Dominic for that matter too
@biasedworld
Niko didn’t like anything bad said about Chyna, shame as he was good value
Good cat.
The silver squeeze isn’t over either……JPM et al have the silver but it really hurts them having to deliver physical instead of cash settlement
What comes next if they can keep it together
https://twitter.com/TaviCosta/status/1364827024804601859
Why? He has said from the start that he wants tighter labour markets.
He is doing a great job.
Have you watched joe rogans 3 hr interview with Elon? Awesome
Likewise Captain Phil.
Now we’re talking! Cheap coral trout…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-02-25/coral-trout-rout-as-china-pulls-plug-on-export-licence/13190640
So… now all I have to do is explain to the missus why I smell like a stripper (opened the pot)… good stuff.
Must remember not to reuse any previous excuses.
PS is this what you had in mind Coral?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=T8XeDvKqI4E
It’s an absolute crime that when you eat out in cairns all you can get is filthy farmed barra or a steak. All the reef fish you hear about are never on the menu, obviously a victim of the human locust market in Chyna
Are all the rods in Cairns broken again?
Human locust market? My, you’re gonna go to hell for that one.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NkLD_cWIarQ
I’ve told you where I am. 2/169 Latrobe st Melbourne 3000
Come at me sniper
How have you managed to not injure yourself on that stairwell?
Can I come over for cones?
There are other forces in play…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/26/australian-scientists-warn-urgent-action-needed-to-save-19-collapsing-ecosystems
Now we are talking indeed. Where is best place to buy Coral trout in Vic? I’ll watch prices.
I’m still waiting for the cheap wine to hit the market.
BWS. Advocate. 2018. CS. Half price for Woollies card holders. Usually $40.00.
Born down in a dead man’s town
And the first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much
‘Til you spend half your life just to cover up
Economics professor Ross Garnaut says Australia voluntarily keeps hundreds of thousands unemployed
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-25/ross-garnaut-economists-unemployment-rba-government-critique/13186724
NAIRU
Et tu – ????
https://twitter.com/migtronix/status/1364513077295677447?s=19
I would think you remember long ago my opinion from a PKE view on NAIRU and its predecessor the IS-LM and how that ideological variant of capitalism rolls ….
Same guy who believed the currency needed to float? which was a pre-condition for an independent CB which did nothing else but target inflation “goods and services standard”?
“In this short paper I am going to ask whether we have returned to a Pigovian world, in
which we do not have to worry about maintaining balance between aggregate demand
and the supply capacity of the economy; and in which we therefore can safely leave
monetary and fiscal policy to the mechanistic application of a couple of simple rules.
For determining the money supply, in the place of the Gold Standard, we have a
Goods and Services standard, within which interests rates are adjusted so that the rate
of increase in a general price index is low and steady. The Goods and Services
standard requires a floating exchange rate, which adjusts without intervention to the
myriad factors affecting supply and demand for external currencies”
I’d hazard a guess that we were never in a Pigovian world (where unemployment was caused by laziness or excessive wages).
Instead a bunch of elites re-created the gold standard into a goods and services standard in the late 80s early 90s and inflicted 4 x decades of excess involuntary unemployment culminating in extreme inequality and zero interest rates.
Some have always thought the 2% IR was a quasi gold standard gifted to the wealthy in order to end the hard money standard.
Unidirectional benefits of productivity gains.
Bail-in the rich.
Demonise the unfortunate.
Privatisation of not-for-profit social services.
WHO do you blame.
Pick four.
OK you can pick five if you like.
I don’t know about the rest of you but there isn’t a single software developer that ever wants to go back to an office. I’ve been getting offers all this year where first they talk about some office days then come back “consider fully remote” when I say nah
I miss my first job’s office. Well, the coffeemaker it had.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stimulus-checks-are-so-19th-century-give-americans-automatic-electronic-cash-11613101927?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/X14yx3yIEU
Mark Blyth wondering aloud why a government would send out checks when it has the ability to send out 1s and 0s. It’s almost as if every person should have an account with the Fed. That could make it possible to do QE for the peeps. And that would get rid of those pesky middle men in the trickle down model.
Ugh …. the banks are pipe lines to satisfy contracts, not that during the cold war the process was weaponized [see Hudson] and then you have to fold in the machination of fee extraction by McKinsey.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/24/mckinsey-leader-kevin-sneader-ousted-crises-consultancy-ballot
I know but this goes back decades ….
They like to hire Rhodes scholars, it’s very fitting
I’ve noted such in the past and concur …
Footscore,
“.. . It’s almost as if every person should have an account with the Fed. That could make it possible to do QE for the peeps. And that would get rid of those pesky middle men in the trickle down model…”
MyFed !
Your welcome.
You did cross my mind as I read the piece.
#MeToo
Fixed that for you:
Ahhh,…to be dating someone 36 again.
Sigh
“‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry says ‘prepare for inflation’ – and warns bitcoin and gold might be at risk | Business Insider” https://www.businessinsider.com.au/big-short-michael-burry-warns-inflation-bitcoin-gold-hedge-risk-2021-2
“Burry highlighted passages from the book about the recurrence of inflation throughout history, how it’s usually preceded by an economic boom and a spike in overnight fortunes, and how it leads to soaring crime, surging living costs, and poverty.”
Was he talking about OZ property, perchance?
“Things could be worse, I suppose. It could be women trying to suck my ock”.
https://www.theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819583529/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Poor bloke having too many accidents. I think we can all relate.
Glory be.
What a difference a day makes, 😝.
https://twitter.com/migtronix/status/1364869675574718466?s=19
Rebtseekers all
Q&A stacked tonight with 3 Liberals – Mike Baird, Katie Allen and Jane Halton – just reaching for the remote to switch this rubbish off.
Get Mike drunk and touch him up. It’s pro forma….
And touch him up – meaning??
Mike Baird?? What the Fuk, life is too short for watching mike fuking Baird on tv
I’ve met Halton a couple of times via one of my ex wives.
If you think she looks ratlike, well, TV just doesn’t do her ratlikeness justice. And her eyes…her eyes….
It’s like a whole thing for you. Btches i left behind i just left behind
She doesn’t half like herself – same with Katie Allen and indeed, any LNPer – female or male. Universally, their sh.t doesn’t stink.
Is there a Mr Halton (or whatever name)?
Yeah, some public servant. My partner has worked with him and doesn’t think highly of him.
I want to seek destruction. Don’t even know why but if you have a motive hmu
Lucky you don’t drive a car right
Correct
So put my hands up
They’re playing my song
You know I’m be OK
Its a party in the USA
Nodding my head like yeah
Media bargaining code has passed in to law with the support of the ALP. Looks like MB will have to cough up the cash for linking snippets of articles from the big media outlets. (Once Josh designates this site for not being partisan)
I will not be voting ALP again after this.
content has been a bit ho hum recently, but I still ruv mb
Get the feeling the boys are a bit bored with it
What does this law have to do with the ALP? The Libs are the ones who introduced this flawed turd. Even if the ALP oppose it, it passes anyway.
You should always let a flawed turd pass.
You should write a life advice book. I’d buy it.
Have you not been watching MAFS?
ALP = the Clayton’s LNP. If the LNP don’t shaft you (ie they miss out doing it once by sheer oversight), the ALP will do it for the LNP?
Transport for NSW was targeted in a ‘very, very serious’ hack that struck businesses and agencies worldwide, a senior minister has revealed – https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/transport-for-nsw-affected-in-global-accellion-hack/news-story/b97689cf758b9c597a5c271644198d27
– Driver’s licence databases, opal cards and medical records were not affected, Cyber Security NSW said
– It comes after a top NSW bureaucrat revealed that up to 30,000 state residents still haven’t been informed their private information was compromised in a separate hacking incident last year that targeted Service NSW.
So the most important piece of identification we have, our Driving License, COULD have been at risk to a Cyber-Hack in NSW.
Unbelievable.
We are also to assume that of all the attacks going on regarding ‘peoples data’, we are probably only being told about 5% of the attacks actually happening. Just like the attacks on our Medical Information, the attacks upon our Defence, the attacks upon our Parliament which werent that long ago.
So basically, the Government, is no longer trustworthy to hold our information.
A decade ago I worked in a NSW govt IT dept and their legal dept ruled out storing sensitive data on an overseas-based cloud server. It had to be local and required strict security compliance. So much for that. Maybe a case of LNP cutting away red tape to make things more “efficient”.
Looking forward to the day when the “better managed in private hands” land registry ends up haxx0r3d. They don’t even need to steal the data, just silently modify/corrupt it.
No longer?
Never has been trustworthy to do so and it’s only got worse under gold standard Gladys?
Jebus.
Australia 10Y
1.873
Eek.
Let It RIPPPPP
If it did, you know deposit rates still won’t rise for yonks?
80c
I think all of those ancient peoples that once deposited their “hard-earned” for a return were wiped out long ago..
Nothing to see here.
Looks like we’re in the end game now. Forecasts were for the USD 10 yr to reach 1.5% by mid-year. We’re already there.
yeah wow… thats rising much faster then expected… https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/government-bond-yield
So now that the migrations been cut from Australia, this is the equivalent in money printing which is keeping house prices afloat. All that money going to a select of few people in Australia so they can buy houses. Let me guess, Australias buying Migrants houses?
Seeing how the “skilled workers” are revolting, I’m waiting to hear the first “let them eat cake” uttered by some knob in Canberra: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-25/vanuatu-workers-sacked-in-queensland-death-threats-swp/13192634
80c
It had a quick peek …….At what point buy USD for a wee while?
Any time. Or better, buy an index
Index?
I’ll take the one from my high school chemistry book for 15c. The maths one for 25c. And, the one in Margaret Fulton’s cookbook for 7c. Is that portfolio diverse enough?
Index I understand but instead of USD?
Mig’s referring to an ETF that tracks / is valued on DXY’s value, or, for some, straight USD.
PS one of the very few things I’ve learned in conjunction with reading this blog is that the value of DXY goes *down* when world-wide growth kicks in. Not financial advice, this time might be different.
Sorry, early submit.
… and is saying index as that’s more convenient than mucking round with currency conversion charges and physical fiat.
1.46%
Charlie Munger quote of the Day
Buffett and he know how to sum up situations so eloquently?
I’m feeling like a star
You can’t stop my shine
I’m going yolong
US diplomats in China claim they were forced to take anal swab tests https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9298587/China-denies-requiring-U-S-diplomats-anal-swab-tests.html
Only one variety of ass.hole for which this really should be reserved, the ones Down Under 😉
Sh*t, ay?
Pucker up………..
Reusa might finally be keen to get tested with that kind of action..
There’s a type located somewhere else?
B) “forced”? heh.
Here’s a hint: you don’t need FU money, you can just say FU.
True, but with FU money the consequences are so much less…
Goldman Sachs Says Urban Flight To Last For Years … Zerohedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/goldman-sachs-says-urban-flight-last-years
Goldman Sachs expects the exodus from cities to weigh on shelter inflation. Goldman’s Jan Hatzius told clients that it could take years for urban vacancies to normalize.
Hatzius’ note, titled “Inflation Signal, Healthcare Noise (Hill),” had some excellent commentary on the urban exodus, aligning with our thoughts from last July when we said city dwellers fleeing metro areas could last for the next 18-24 months. …
… concluding …
… Because of the social-economic chaos last summer across major metro areas, violent crime surging, and hybrid work trends due to the pandemic, the shift to suburbia will become more permanent. It will take people some time to realize that the economy will never return to pre-COVID times – a lot of structural changes have already happened in a short period.
New Zealand remote working trends … perspective from Vodafone …
Time to unlock the power of the regions (Vodafone Business sponsored) … New Zealand Herald
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sponsored-stories/time-to-unlock-the-power-of-the-regions/T4LXAV44CS6WZXLAKPRTT34YQM/
… extracts …
… “With 48 per cent of people who worked from home in the June quarter not usually working at home, there’s increased scope for some roles to be based in more provincial areas, and will be something for business and decision makers to consider moving ahead,” he said. “Businesses were able to adapt and enable employees to continue working from a different location.”
Vodafone has also seen what that means for New Zealand, says Baird: “It means we have to build and upgrade digital infrastructure across New Zealand, because data use increased by a whopping 56 per cent during 2020 as more Kiwis relied on mobile technology and digital services to work, live and play remotely. …
… But it’s not just work life that’s gone online; entertainment and socialising has too. On Christmas and Boxing Day, Vodafone NZ customers streamed 1178 terabytes of data in just two days – equivalent to more than a million hours of video. It is 52 per cent more data than we used the previous Christmas. New Year’s Eve celebrations saw 80 per cent more data used by Vodafone customers, compared to 2019-2020.
Throughout December as a whole, there was a 74 per cent year-on-year growth in data use on Vodafone’s 4G network and a tenfold increase in 5G in the last three months. … read more via hyperlink above …