Australian dollar rocket scorches to new high

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DXY is getting belted again as trade deals flow in. They don’t look great to me, but must be less severe than the market expected.

AUD scorched to a new high. The big short is working wonders.

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Lead boots jumped.

Gold is skeptical of DXY. Oil is where it should be.

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Lol, copper.

Could copper overcome iron ore? Meh.

The EM of old.

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Junk breaking out.

Yields up.

Stocks ATH.

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An impending EU deal at a 15% tariff got markets excited. I would have thought this would be DXY positive, but, hey, bad is good news again.

Then again, markets sold bonds, so it wasn’t a play on falling rates.

It’s not clear what it was other than the buying of risk and the selling of safety on declining policy shocks.

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AUD is going to love that at all times, and it appears it has more to go as the big short powers every rebound.

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.