The headline comments from Goldman Sachs's commodities chief Jeff Currie are here from a little while ago:

If you'd like more, Bloomberg have a piece up on the web now:

  • "Commodities proved to work just as advertised" during the recent equity-led declines, Jeffrey Currie, the bank's head of commodities research, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television from Hong Kong on Wednesday. "In fact, you saw base metals and gold trade up as the equity market went down."

At the time AUD was settling in near its highs .... but as Chinese stocks have traded off a little the AUD is now a bit lower ... updates:

But .... ranges tiny across the board ... 'cept for the NZD move eaelier

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