Daily iron ore price update (smashed)

Thursday, 16 August 2018

Iron ore prices for August 15, 2018:

Spot down. Paper caught contagion overnight. Steel is fine. At some stage in the next three months we’re going to see a goodly selloff. The question now is will that be a buying opportunity for 2019 as Chinese stimulus pours in or the beginning of the end for the global cycle. Stay tuned.

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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.