Daily iron ore price update (Anglo worry)

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Here are the iron ore price charts for September 2, 2014:

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Paper markets were mixed with Dalian rebounding but the 12 month flat. Rebar futures were smacked to new all time lows. Physical remains weak across the board and spot is sitting right on its post-2009 low. Texture from Reuters:

“We don’t see any bright spots right now – steel mills aren’t making profit and I don’t expect any new stimulus coming from the government any time soon,” said a trader based in the major steel producing city of Tangshan in Hebei province.

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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.