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• Aussie Trade Potential Off Support

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-11-19

  The LFB submits: Stock markets were trading in mixed fashion during Thursday trade. The Japanese Nikkei was dropped 74 points while the Australian S&P/ASX gained 10 points, and the MSCI Asia Pacific Index declined 0.07 points. Lower stocks were seen at the start of the European trade where...

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• Australia: What Recession?

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-11-17

  The US market is enjoying a cyclical recovery in the context of a secular bear market. The situation is similar to that of the 1968-to-1982 era: We’re likely to see far more extreme business cycles and vicious recessions than during the benign post-1982 secular bull market. In the...

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• Australian Monetary Policy: Too Much of a Good Thing

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-11-06

  Claus Vistesen submits: It is indeed an old adage that while goods things are to be preferred over bad things, it is possible to get too much of the former. Looking at recent comments from the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, it is not difficult to imagine...

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• Will the Australian Dollar Continue to Drop?

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-11-06

  The LFB submits: On Wednesday, after the FOMC interest rate statement Wall Street equity traders dropped the 1% gains, that had taken 23 hours of futures trade on the S&P to build, in a 15 minute elevator ride lower. Traders absorbed the BOE and ECB...

  Tags: US Market, The LFB, CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust

• The Carry Trade: Making This Trend Your Friend

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-11-05

  Dan Pritch submits: There's been a lot of press lately about the Carry Trade, and like all catchy trends in the investing world, by the time it's a routine fixture on CNBC and blogs, the smart money's been made and retail investors are left holding the bag when the...

  Tags: US Market, Everyday Finance, CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust

• Gold: Something Powerful Is Building

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-11-04

  Another nail in the coffin for deflationists. Gold traded at multi-week highs against paper currencies Monday night. Perhaps the most significant move was gold's close above $AUD1180. The charts below suggest that something powerful is building in gold, perhaps something that will rival what we witnessed in the late 1980s....

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• Why Australia Raised Rates Again

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-11-04

  Australia raised rates again by another 25 basis points overnight. The reasons the Reserve Bank of Australia gave for the rise are: The global economy has resumed growth. With economic policy settings likely to remain expansionary for some time, the recovery is likely to continue...

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• The Price Points I'm Watching to Re-Enter a Long Australian Dollar Position

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-10-29

  Simit Patel submits: Below is the AUDUSD weekly chart I'm watching closely. I'll re-evaluate if we can get a break above the two week high of .9327, or if we get a pullback on the hammer down to around .9050, where the 5 EMA on the weekly chart is. ...

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• Australian Rate Hike: Looking at the Logic

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-10-21

  Individual Global Investor submits:In last week’s article, I highlighted that one of the key positive developments this month was the Reserve Bank of Australia commonly referred to as the RBA hiking interest rates by one quarter of a point to 3.25% on October 6th. With the release of its...

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• Reserve Bank of Australia: Getting It Right on the Asset Boom and the Recession

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-10-16

  Gerard Jackson submits: The Reserve Bank of Australia has led the world's central banks in raising rates in the presence of a great deal of unemployment and idle capacity. Clearly the bank is making a pre-emptive strike against inflation. That this was also a strike against Keynesian orthodoxy went unnoticed,...

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