When the mining rally turned really stupid

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When Monadelphus took off it should have been a warning to investors that the mining rally had turned really stupid. And today they get their reward, from The Australian:

Engineering contractor Monadelphous is continuing to pivot away from the resources sector towards the oil and gas industry as the mining downturn continues to put pressure on the group.

Monadelphous today booked a profit of $67 million for the year through June, a 37 per cent slide year-on-year. Revenue for the group (MND) was down 27 per cent to $1.37bn.

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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.