Boom or bust for iron ore as China targets growth?

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The China boom has arrived and if it is not quite what I was expecting, it is what I feared.

At the headline level, markets are likely to be disappointed:

China set a modest economic growth target of around 5% for the year, a sign the nation’s top leaders are still concerned about the recovery, given weak consumer confidence, declining exports and a housing market still under pressure.

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About the author
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.