S&P shreds iron ore forecast, downgrades next

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From S&P via CNBC:

The agency revised down its iron ore price forecast to $65 per tonne for 2015 and 2016, from $85 per tonne. It cut its copper price forecast to $2.70 per pound ($5,952.50 a tonne) in 2015 and 2016, from $3.10, it said in a release.

“Given our new assumed prices for iron ore and copper, we expect changes to our credit ratings and outlooks on some entities in the coming weeks,” Standard & Poor’s credit analyst Elad Jelasko said.

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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.