The slow dawn of iron ore horror

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From the AFR:

Former Rio Tinto chief Tom Albanese says weak iron ore prices are here to stay for longer than expected and “volatility is the new normal”, as iron ore sank below $US70 a tonne overnight Tuesday for the first time in five years.

…“As long as there is a large amount of new supply you are going to have a much softer pricing world than people would have anticipated, for at least a couple of years.”

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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.