Australian dollar crumbles with commodities
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DXY is up:

AUD is down:

China let CNY slip if look right up close:

Oil and gold are pointing to commodity exhaustion:
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Copper and metals more like keeled over:

Miners fell:

EM fell:
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Junk has the jitters:

As the steepeneer steepens:

And stocks feel dizzy:
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So, is that the end of this latest round of commodity lunacy? Who knows.
What we can say is that the fundamentals remain unsupportive for most dirt:
- US Fed “higher for longer”;
- Global growth landing of some sort;
- Chinese structural change away from construction unchanged;
- big supply uptrends in major metals, and
- DXY still in a bullish trend.
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The AUD is still trapped in the basement.
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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