Daily iron ore price update (massacre)

Tuesday 7 April 2015

Here are the iron ore prices to April 2, 2015:

Thursday’s iron ore closing price was ugly at $46.70 for Tianjin benchmark, down $2.30 or 4.7%. Qingdao spot wasn’t much better falling 4.9% to $47.08. Friday’s price will be updated later today.

The Dalian price is Friday’s closing low so we might expect more spot weakness:

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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.