Goldman turns bearish iron ore

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Via Bloomie comes Goldman:

The raw material may fall to $60 a ton in three months, $55 in six and $50 in 12, according to the New York-based bank’s projections…

The forecast for lower prices “is mainly because we see steel production in China peaking and should fall going forward and iron ore supply is still growing, with S11D ramping up,” analyst Hui Shan said in an email to Bloomberg, referring to Vale SA’s giant new mine.

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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.