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Too much of a good thing in iron ore

NO need to embarrass them by naming them. Suffice to say that the leading investment house which two months ago made the call that 62% iron ore was headed to US$50 a tonne lickety split got things badly wrong. <b>By Barry FitzGerald</b>

Barry Fitzgerald
Too much of a good thing in iron ore

It wasn’t alone either. Almost the entire forecasting industry had iron ore falling sharply in the back half of calendar 2017, raising questions about the very survival of the small high cost producers,...

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