Here is the iron ore price table for January 16, 2013:
And it is farewell froth time:
So, clearly the Chinese restock is done for now. Swaps are holding the line at the $120 support and I expect this correction could take us all the way back into the $130s, with ongoing repairs to my once glowing spread study:
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.