Iron ore rallies into the void

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I really don’t know where the market thinks it is going with this:

It is clear now that only incremental stimulus is coming out of China. Bloomie has a go at it:

Earlier in 2023, Beijing seemed to want to cool down the industry, a move that would help cope with weaker demand and meet emissions targets. It ordered domestic steelmakers — who contribute more than half of global production — to keep total output from exceeding last year’s level.

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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.