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Australian dollar all time short chases 40 cents

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Australian dollar all time short chases 40 cents
By David Llewellyn-Smith   |  Sep 25, 2023 09:20
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DXY is breaking out:

DXY
DXY

AUD managed to firm but it’s not going anywhere:

AUDUSD
AUDUSD

The CFTC AUD short is at an all-time high near -100k contracts:

CFTC AUD
CFTC AUD

One reason why is CNY is nailed to the floor:

CNYUSD
CNYUSD

Oil is now a massive problem for markets. Any fall in yields lifts oil and chokes everything off:

BRENT
BRENT

Dirt is doomed:

COPPER
COPPER

Miners did better:

RIO
RIO

EMs stocks are trash:

EEM
EEM

Junk firmed:

HYG
HYG

Yields eased:

YIELDS
YIELDS

But stocks know the bind they’re in with oil and the Fed now:

SPX
SPX

The extreme AUD short appears to be chasing my ruminations about further falls, perhaps as low as into a 4-handle. Of course, I cannot influence a market this liquid, but I am not the only one that identified the drivers. Ironically, this makes further falls in the AUD less likely.

Still, DXY continues to firm, and it now has a golden cross to get the technical machines’ excited:

DXY CROSS
DXY CROSS

Nor is the market long. Nothing like it:

SPECULATION DXY
SPECULATION DXY

Yet the outlook for DXY remains very bullish:

  • Europe is still in recession with worse ahead.
  • China is struggling manfully, but the property tide is still going out.
  • Rising oil is DXY bullish.
  • Resilient US growth has the Fed set to hike again as other major central banks stop.

Note that my original forecast for AUD with 4-handle was five years away. It was based on the notion that Chinese growth is turning Japanese while the US economy is about to launch into an AI supercycle.

I firmly believe China is stuffed, but it may take that long for it to be fully reflected in waning growth.

JPM research indicates a similar timetable for US artificial intelligence profits Nirvana:

AI PRODUCTIVITY
AI PRODUCTIVITY

The extreme AUD short will prevent it from going much lower today.

Australian dollar all time short chases 40 cents
 

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Australian dollar all time short chases 40 cents

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