Australian dollar cuts bears in half

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DXY has pulled out of its swoon for now on some new Fed hawkspeak:

AUD is putting in some pretty impressive bearish candles:

AUD bearish bets have halved:

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CNY concrete boots:

If oil runs, the rally will reverse:

Dirt meh:

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Miners look a good short to me:

EM dead:

Junk flamed out:

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As yields reversed:

Stocks only go up:

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:

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.

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.