Will China or BHP win the iron ore fight?

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The ferrous complex popped at the end of Golden Week yesterday. Pretty typical stuff.

The steel profitability gap remains wide.

We know a shakeout is coming for iron ore. The question is how deep it will need to be. Morgan Stanley has a crack at it.

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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.