Crazy iron ore piles it on

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Markets are profoundly irrational things:

The most-traded January iron ore on China’s Dalian Commodity Exchange DCIOcv1 ended daytime trade 4.5% higher at 805.50 yuan ($110.52) per ton, extending its rally to a ninth straight session.

“The implementation of macro and micro-targeted fiscal and monetary easing policy measures on a municipal and provincial level appears to be back in vogue and picking up momentum,” said Navigate Commodities Managing Director Atilla Widnell.

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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.