Green steel abandons Australia

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The ferrous jaws are closing, though we still need a price nearer to $90 for iron ore for steel enterprises to make sense.

With a mild cyclone season so far, price pressure is likely to continue into CNY, which runs from February 16 to February 22. Typically, there is some kind of bounce afterwards before we lapse again into mid-year.

However, this year the glut appears more severe and weighs against cyclical trends.

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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.