Ferrous markets were strong on July 26, 2022:

It’s all a bit silly now. Steel is up 2% and iron ore 18% since the Chinese realty bailout fund news. This will only intensify the steel crisis in China and kill the rally in short order.
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Goldman has some ironies:
The crisis engulfing China’s property sector will help swing the iron ore market to a significant surplus over the second half of the year and push prices sharply lower, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
The bank now projects an excess of 67 million tons of the steelmaking mineral for the rest of 2022, after a deficit of 56 million tons in the first half, reflecting both weakness in onshore real-estate and a sharp deceleration in steel demand outside China, according to a note on Tuesday.
Goldman also cut its three and six month price targets to $70 and $85 a ton, respectively, from $90 and $110 a ton. The bank said it expects the iron ore market’s current predicament to outlast the sell-off seen in 2021, although conditions are unlikely to get as bad as the 2014-15 bear market, which saw prices hit a low of $38 a ton.
The issue at hand is that iron ore is closely linked to early-cycle property activity in China, Goldman said. The government’s crackdown on excessive debt in the sector, which began about year ago, has morphed into a full-blown crisis, with mortgage holders now withholding payments on unfinished housing.
“This sector segment generates close to a third of China’s steel and iron ore demand, which in turn represents close to a quarter of global seaborne demand,” Goldman said.
Yet, it seems to me, that Goldman and its Wall St ilk are also responsible for the wild night trading in Dalian prices which is mostly a bid.
The Goldman outlook is a sensible base case if only its own traders would read it.
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.
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