Iron ore miners rally into ether

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Rather predictably, the ASX has taken the opportunity of overnight falls in big iron ore to bid up prices this morning. Today it may be hopes of a falling dollar, or hopes of Chinese stimulus/restocking or hopes of an Elvis revival, I don’t know, being ceaselessly bemused by the willingness of Australian bottom-pickers to throw away money on these firms. But that’s the fashion so I’ll not stand in the way. BHP is down 1% with oil but RIO is flat and FMG up 2.5%. To the indexes:

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The idiocy spreads have begun to close once more (notwithstanding today) and FMG has even reached a new high in sanity. Alas, the other two remain far below the processing power of a mosquito:

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In juniors, BCI has resumed its plunge while the convergence at zero is scheduled for later this year:

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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.