Daily iron ore price update

David Llewellyn-Smith

Monday, 20 April 2015

Here are the iron ore charts for April 17, 2015:

Spot was firm, following paper with Tianjin benchmark up 70 cents to $50.70. Dalian closed up 1 point but fell 3 points to 392 overnight. Rebar has loosened again and port stocks fell a lousy 200k on the week. Texture from Reuters:

“Those mills that were running low on inventory bought up this week especially from port stocks. But overall supply remains high and that’s keeping the pressure on prices,” said an iron trader in Shanghai.

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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.