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Iron ore and coking coal have held onto last night’s losses today in Dalian:

And Big Iron is taking the pain as BHP falls -1.6%, RIO -1.4%, FMG -5% and WHC -1.2%:

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Today’s standout chart is RIO’s breaking head and shoulders top:

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Perhaps not entirely convincing yet but not a good sign…

Big Gas is also down with oil:

Big Gold is getting hammered by an NCM profit warning which seems to have triggered profit-taking in the sector:

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If trading I’d buy here on North Korea. If holding longer term I’d wait.

Big Debt is also taking it in the team:

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As is Big Spruik:

One wonders if the entire bourse has not put in a monstrous double top here:

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After all, we really are all about dirt.

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.