Daily iron ore price update (clubbed like baby seal)

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SGX that is. Hammered again yesterday to $73.64:

Coronavirus damage estimates are mounting, via Platts:

“The concentration of the virus in China, the strong growth of Chinese steel production/exports since 2003 are likely create a demand vacuum across the region,” Jefferies’ Australia-based analysts Simon Thackray and Abraham Akra said in a note. “We believe, inventories of steel globally are likely to rise and offset the fall in Chinese steel production, weighing on global steel prices. Similarly, nonferrous scrap demand is likely to fall.”

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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.