Daily iron ore price update (Tonkolili returns!)

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Here are the iron ore charts for March 16, 2016:

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Tianjin spot recovered 1.5% to $52.50, paper bounced and Singapore took off, rebar was hammered. Reuters has texture:

“Now that everybody’s calmed down, we see there’s no major improvement on the physical demand side for steel,” said a Shanghai-based iron ore trader. While Chinese steel demand is better now than in the past two months as warmer weather spurs more construction activity, “it’s not enough to keep steel prices high,” he said.

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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.