Australian dollar roars as China bazooka fires blanks

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DXY faded last night:

The AUD climbed:

With plenty of aid from North Asia:

Oil sagged:

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Metals mania looks a lot like a bursting bubble:

Big miners meh:

EM is cooked:

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Junk was better:

As yields rolled:

And stocks mull a decent correction:

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The Chinese stock and property bazooka appears to have fired blanks:

This is helping to deflate the metals bubble, which was little more than hot money chasing Goldman research reports:

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If this continues with oil, yields will come off before long, stopping the correction from getting very far.

I am no more bullish about AUD today than I was yesterday.

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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.