All good at Roy Hill

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Gina’s folks are putting on a brave face. From The Australian:

Roy Hill chief executive Barry Fitzgerald said the company’s financing plans had not suffered a setback despite the recent forecasts.

“I don’t believe so,” Mr Fitzgerald told an iron ore conference in Perth on Wednesday.

“The reality is our long-run iron ore price is based on the consensus of the products and that’s where the investors and the financiers are comfortable.”

“I haven’t seen a big move in the long-run iron ore forecast for the last six years.”

That’s funny, I have. A lot! The price went far higher than anyone ever expected. And it will probably do the same in reverse…

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Still, I expect the project to still go ahead. With Gina standing behind it, why not give it the money?

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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.