Daily iron ore price update (BHP, RIO speak)

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Singapore 12 month swaps fell 2 cents yesterday to $58.67 and Qingdao iron ore ore rose 63 cents to $64.01:

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In news, the majors are suddenly talking themselves down. Sam Walsh’s RIO is rightly scathing of the Glencore “fantasy” bid (though I wonder why it says so give the support it offers his share price), from The Australian:

“Part of the reason is value but part of the reason is the anti-trust and people who collect tax and what have you, they’re simply not going to let it happen,” he 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.