Australia dollar launches as greenback free falls

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DXY is right at major support. EUR is through resistance. This is a one way train for now:

AUD is beginning to move support from the falling DXY to reflation triggered by falling DXY:

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Gold is running. Oil trying:

There’s no global recession in dirt:

Miners are more mixed:

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EM stocks gloomy:

Junk sad:

The curve steepened:

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And stocks boomed on:

US data delivered a soft PPI and jobless claims. Not much, really.

We’re into another leg of falling DXY, rising growth stocks mania. Like last time it can run until either it begins to trigger reflation and yields rise, or it is challenged by some hard landing data.

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I have no idea which will arrive first but still think that one or both is coming down the pipe.

Until then, AUD to the moon!

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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