Shorts puke the Australian dollar

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DXY was stable Friday night:

The AUD was a one way rocket:

As the record short tasted vomit for the first time:

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The commodity bubble inflated:

But not iron ore miners:

The bubble has given EM stocks a reprieve:

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But junk still fell:

Treasury yields backed up some more but the curve appear to be cooked now:

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Which aided Growth stocks:

Nothing new here. The commodity mania intensified and will run until it burns itself out. While that happens the AUD is going higher. The record short is obviously vulnerable to a considerably larger puke with markets moderately long DXY:

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And very pessimistic about AUD:

A good cleanout of bears here would be a fantastic opportunity to reload Australian dollar shorts for the coming commodity bubble pop.

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.