Mining “years” from bottom

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From the AFR comes some sense at last:

The managing director of Denham Capital, Bert Koth, also defied optimists who have called the bottom for commodity prices.

“We believe we are still two years away from the bottom and then we are going to stay there for at least four to five years,” Mr Koth said. “The market is still a falling knife.”

…”The reason we have a funding crisis [in the resources sector] is because the people who put their money into the public markets have lost it,” he said. “Private equity is not going to close the funding gap.”

Unless they want to lose it of course.

About the author
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.