Find above the ore complex price table for November 12.
The news today is all in the other bulks, where we find a little bounce happening for both coals, coking and thermal, on improving Chinese data. From ANZ:
Newc physical FOB thermal coal prices rose, in line with better China data. Electricity production in China rose 6.4% y/y to 397.5bn kWh in October, the strongest gain in 7 months and encouraging for thermal power demand. Coking coal prices have also improved, up 4.7% last week to USD157/t in line with rising iron ore prices (5th consecutive weekly rise to USD122/t).
ANZ Commodity Daily 740 121112 (2)
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Seasonal the main driver??