Daily iron ore price update (sinking)

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Here are the iron ore charts for March 11, 2015:

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Tianjin benchmark iron ore price which fell 80 cents to $57.70, a new low. Paper was stable and in a minor positive so was rebar average. Reuters has texture:

“A combination of weak construction activity and scheduled maintenance at steel mills has sidelined a substantial portion of buying interest (for iron ore) and with inventories of both flat and long finished steel held at mills increasing,” said Kash Kamal, an analyst at Sucden Financial.

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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.