Enthusiasm for miners slides

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Credit Suisse is pulling back:

Still long commodity producers, but less so

■ Everything is awesome: All of the three main macro drivers of the commodity producers have been supportive. Chinese fiscal policy has been in expansion mode, Chinese money supply has been growing and the US Dollar has been depreciating. Since the recent lows in June the iron ore price has surged 35% and the Australian Metals and Mining Index has outperformed the benchmark by 20%.

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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.