Are Fortescue and Vale creating a cartel?

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From FMG comes another large “wow”:

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Strange bedfellows given they’re fighting it out for marginal cost producer status in the long run. But then, keep your friends close and your enemies closer! I assume they’ll look to blend material in one of Vale’s Asian hubs.

In today’s environment this will no doubt lend FMG a large hand today. It offers potential to collaborate on controlling supply at the margin, especially if Vale does plough into an FMG ownership stake.

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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.