Australian dollar sickened by new coronavirus

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DXY was firm.

AUD legged down the leg up.

Jaws still open.

Oil was flogged. Can’t find an obvious reason.

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Commods mixed.

Miners down.

EM Deep Seeking continues.

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Junk yawn.

Yields rolling?

Stocks puked.

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US housing and services data was soft but not terrible. Perhaps everything was exaggerated by Batwoman’s new coronavirus.

More likely were just overbought again and needed to cool off.

AUD is just following risk.

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The overextended AUD short came back in a little more last week.

But probably not enough yet to free the currency to move materially in either direction.

I’m still a short-term AUD bull.

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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.