Australian dollar worse than trash

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DXY was soft and EUR firm:

Risk is raging but the AUD is not.

Gold and oil are food and running:

Dirt yawn:

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Mining yawn:

EM may be dead thanks to China going ex-growth:

Junk is not supportive:

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Yields eased:

Stocks only go up:

Especially insolvent banks as the dash for trash accelerates. Did credit-crunched small US banks? Buy ’em!

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Everything US is partying but global risk is not.

A big, fat and exhausted Chinese elephant has sat on everything else. Goldman’s and Zoltan’s commodity super cycle is getting hosed:

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While the falling DXY persists, there will be upwards pressure on AUD but it is fighting massive wind shear in ex-growth China.

The latter will win easily in the long run as we redo the post-2012 period for dirt.

A super bust cycle for commodities and the AUD.

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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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