Daily iron ore price update (rocket!)

Tuesday, 26 May 2015

Here are the iron ore charts for May 25, 2015:

Spot took off again with Tianjin benchmark up 2% to $61.10. Paper is playing catch up although Singapore is still muted. Dalian was up yesterday but poured it on overnight and is trading at 435 this morning. Rebar average continues its plod to Hell telling you that steel demand has not changed. Chinese iron ore port stocks fell another 2 million tonnes last week.

Texture from Reuters:

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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.