Fortescue is in trouble again

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Via Credit Suisse:

Fortescue’s net present value would fall to just $1.40 a share if the current discounts are sustained.

The lower-grade iron ore predominantly produced by Fortescue has historically sold at a 10 per cent discount to the spot price of higher grade material, but the gap has blown out to around 30 per cent in recent months.

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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.