Daily iron ore price update (the next victim)

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Here are the iron ore price charts for October 27, 2015:

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Spot flat with Tianjin benchmark unchanged. Singapore 12 month swap are at new lows. Dalian six month futures are hanging on grimly. Rebar is flat for a change. Nothing changed, going lower, from Bloomberg:

“It’s going down significantly,” Katie Hudson, managing director and senior investment manager at Goldman Sachs Asset Management Australia, said in an interview on Tuesday. “The major producers are adding incremental volume at around $US20 a ton, that gives you a sense of where the vulnerability is. We have a more cautious view on the iron ore price today that reflects both our concern about increasing supply and what we see as a more modest demand environment The iron ore price has got significant downside risk from here.”

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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.