Australian dollar pulverised as American economy breaks

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DXY bounced hard last night. EUR may have formed a double top:

AUD was pulverised then bounced some:

Gold and oil held the gains:

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Dirt is falling:

Miners too:

And EM stocks:

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Make junk weak again:

US yields broke support:

Stocks are also toying with double tops:

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US data is weakening fast. The Services ISM was a shocker:

ADP slowed as well, up by 145,000 jobs in March and annual pay was up 6.9 percent year-over-year. That’s a nasty combination.

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BofA’s macro metrics are slumping:

The US is heading into a recession and it is becoming obvious. Credit card spending is further confirmed to have been hit by the bank run (which I would not expect) and the KRE is breaking down again:

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However, this is all well-telegraphed. What is not is that the Eurozone is fast catching down which matters a lot for FX.

As the ECB is forced to pause as well then the interest rate and growth uplift for EUR will simultaneously disappear.

I still don’t trust the falling DXY but AUD is at least behaving normally by weakening anyway.

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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.