Idiocy spreads shut as iron ore miners crash

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It appears markets are waking-in-fright to the bet made upon major miners and their ability to weather price falls. FMG is down nearly 4%% to 3.20 and is approaching terminal support at $3. If it breaks then a move all the way to the GFC lows at $1.80 opens up as a possibility. Significantly, RIO is down 3% as well to $57.30 and has taken out its 1 year low. A move to the $50-52 range now looks possible. BHP is also down sharply 2.2% and may be on its way to its next support in the $30 range.

The relative performance chart is now looking decidedly sick:

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And the idiocy spreads are screaming shut:

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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.