Australian dollar to keep falling on Fed hawks

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A solid rebound in DXY last night as EUR fell. The two trend channels are crazy perfect:

AUD is stalled for now:

Oil is going to rain on the bear market parade:

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Metals followed:

Miners fell:

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EM stock and junk flamed out:

Treasuries sold:

Stocks dumped and pumped to even:

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There’s no good news on US inflation. The ADP and ISM services were rock solid and the Cleveland Fed headline index is rising even as CorePCE is stalled at 40bps per month:

There is no Fed pivot in these numbers. If it were to do so then reflation dynamics would roar into commodities and send US prices upwards from 5%.

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The Fed is going to go 75bps in November and if still nothing changes, another 75bps in December.

AUD down.

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.
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