Big iron crashes to new lows as big gas burns

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Big iron ore is still holding up better than it should but it is sinking to new lows with BHP under $18 down -1.3%, RIO smacked 2.7% to a new post-GFC low and FMG again holding up down just -1.5% even though come Monday it will be losing money on every tonne that it ships:

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Glancing at the junior death row, we find AGO in the chair with ARI pushing hard to share it:

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If I could I’d add Cliffs Australian operations. The next outburst from CEO Goncalves as it closes down is going to be a cracker. Dalian is up 1.5 points from its overnight low at the open but still down sharply on yesterday.

Big gas, meanwhile, is also falling despite the rise in oil with WPL and OSH whacked -2% on the CS downgrade and STO up 3% in a Pavlovian response to the same’s upgrade. ORG is down -0.6%:

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All still too pricey!

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.