Rest in peace, Fortescue Metals Group?

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On the of great Australian corporate stories is drawing inexorably to its conclusion. Fortescue Metals Group is on the rack. A great achievement by a ballsy entrepreneur and generous billionaire is going down the dunny covered only in silence by a dumb and compromised media.

Yesterday we saw a capitulation in Fortescue shares. The 8.5% fall to $3.03 took the share price to its long term terminal support:

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It is a brave man that asserts that this support is going to hold, though it’s sure not a break until it breaks. If it does, technically at least, the next stop is $1.80, some way below Charlie Aitken’s recent $4 call.

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About the author
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.