Daily iron ore price update (dead cat)

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Find below the iron ore price table for March 18, 2013:

As I said last week, swaps have reached reasonable price levels. Spot might bounce like a dead cat for while but I still can’t see why the spread to its derivatives and feeder prices won’t return to historic norms over time, which would be more like mid to high $120s now so I don’t expect much of a bounce before more weakness kicks in, especially with rebar still falling.

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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.