Big iron equity stiffens chin into knockout

Thursday 2 April 2015

Big iron equity continues its spectacular outperformance versus its actual business today with more paltry falls versus the calamity unfolding in the price of dirt. BHP is down 0.5% and RIO only 1.4%. The former is still 10% above its December low and RIO 5% above its despite iron ore being 30% lower now. To the index:

The idiocy spreads are stable again today:

Death is moving ever closer to the juniors with AGO and ARI at record lows and BCI breaking to a new low:

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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.