DXY has pulled out of its swoon for now on some new Fed hawkspeak:
![](https://api.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1-44.png)
AUD is putting in some pretty impressive bearish candles:
![](https://api.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2-41.png)
AUD bearish bets have halved:
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![](https://api.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/11-11.png)
CNY concrete boots:
![](https://api.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/3-31.png)
If oil runs, the rally will reverse:
![](https://api.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/4-26.png)
Dirt meh:
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![](https://api.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/5-24.png)
Miners look a good short to me:
![](https://api.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/6-22.png)
EM dead:
![](https://api.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/7-22.png)
Junk flamed out:
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![](https://api.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/8-21.png)
As yields reversed:
![](https://api.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/9-18.png)
Stocks only go up:
![](https://api.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/10-15.png)
Watch oil. It is the potential fly in the ointment for Fed cuts, falling yields, hysterical risk on, and a rising AUD.
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Positioning in oil is soft, so there is some scope for it to run:
![](https://api.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-12-18_06-19-19_0.jpg)
But I still expect lower prices in due course as wrecked fundamentals come to bear.
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This means any AUD reversal is temporary.