Daily iron ore price update (Vale hopes)

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by Chris Becker

A late surge across the iron ore price complex on Friday with ore, futures and particularly rebar heading to new heights:

And its going to do swimmingly for awhile longer, so says Vale, from the AFR:
 

“The market is in a sweet spot right now from $US60 to $US70,” Vale chief financial officer Luciano Siani Pires told Bloomberg Television. “It is a price which does not incentivise too much swing capacity to come back and it’s a very profitable range for major mining companies.”

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