Australian dollar blasts off

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DXY sagged last night:

AUD blasted off:

With JPY:

Brent is a bust, gold is running:

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Dr Copper want to break out:

Miners meh:

EM might be bulling up:

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Junk yawned:

As yields firmed:

Stocks only go up:

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It was an avalanche of positives:

  • Lots of dovish Fed speak.
  • ECB cut inflation outlook and is set to cut soon.
  • Japanese wages were strong and a QE exit looks favourable.

That was enough to sink DXY as global reflation took centre stage.

AUD prospers in such an environment.

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It will take a strong NFP on Friday night to knock this backwards.

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.