Australian dollar roars as trade war ends

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DXY was back but then not.

AUD put in an impressive hammer candle bottom.

I’m baffled by the reaction of auld lead boots.

Oil down, gold up.

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Commods mixed.

Miners meh.

EM lol.

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Junk whacked.

Yields hardly moved.

An extinction-level asteroid could hurt stocks.

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Pretty wild pump and dumps on this.

Lol, Mexican troops to the border. That’ll be a tidy earner for them as they clip the cartel ticket.

But hey, politics is all about perception.

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I’m not sure what the Canadians can do. The amount of drugs and people coming across the northern border is tiny.

Trudeau humiliated, and it’s all good!


The main game, China, is still in play. So is the EU. These early successes, such as they, will not deter King Trump from going harder.

While King Trump shoots to the moon, the Australian dollar is a kite in the wind.

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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.