Capital Group still buying Fortescue

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From The Australian:

US fund management giant The Capital Group has taken advantage of this month’s slide in the share price of Fortescue Metals Group to add to its stake in Australia’s third-biggest iron ore miner.

Capital increased its stake in Fortescue to 7.08 per cent from 6.05 per cent previously, buying nearly 32 million shares since March 4 at an average price of $2.126 each, it said in a statement.

The Capital Group, which manages more than $US1 trillion in assets globally, first emerged with a 5.02 per cent stake in Fortescue in February. It is the third-biggest shareholder in the company, after founder Andrew Forrest and Chinese state-owned steelmaker Hunan Valin.

I have no idea what they are thinking other than “Chinese bailout”.

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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.