Daily iron ore price update (snap back)

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Iron ore charts for February 4, 2020:

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A snap back after yesterday is not a surprise. But all questions about demand and supply remain open and tilted bearish, via Mysteel:

Tens of thousands of people in China alone are fighting against the virus and no one knows for sure how long the battle will last. Though many provincial governments expect that most local enterprises should be able to resume normal business around February 9-10, it is really too early – and dare I say, probably meaningless – to discuss steel demand or production in China.

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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.