Daily iron ore price update (ANZ bears)

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Tianjin benchmark trade resumed after CNY and fell 0.4% to $US44.50.

Over the years I’ve given the ANZ’s commodity team a bit of curry for their consistently wrong bullish outlooks on iron ore. That changed a year or more ago when they “got it” and have been some of the most bearish since. Today continues that good work when assessing the post-CNY prospects for dirt:

• The weaker than expected exports from Australia and expectations of restocking amid tighter steel markets have provided some temporary support to iron ore prices.

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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.