Miners rally off lows as iron ore futures rise

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Both FMG and RIO got smashed to new lows this morning:

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However, Dalian iron ore futures up 1% this afternoon at 708 and that has both miners recovering losses. Here is the latest comparative performance chart:

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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.