Save steel, not Twiggy

Friday 23 January 2026

The ferrous jaws remain far too wide.

Scuttlebutt is negatory.

Australia’s Fortescue posted a 2% rise in second-quarter iron ore shipments, supported by the resilient performance of its Iron Bridge project alongside an uptick in output from its hematite operations.

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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.