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Iron ore price rebounds on positive news from China’s property sector

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Update time : 2021-11-22 22:20:17

The iron ore price rebounded on Friday following some positive news from China’s troubled property sector.

According to Fastmarkets MB, benchmark 62% Fe fines imported into Northern China were changing hands for $91.69 a tonne, up 5%, after hitting the lowest in 18 months on Thursday.

The most-traded January iron ore contract on China’s Dalian Commodity Exchange ended daytime trading 2.5% higher at 536 yuan ($84.00) a tonne. The contract hit 509.50 yuan earlier in the day, its lowest since Nov. 6, 2020, and marked its sixth consecutive weekly decline.

Debt-laden China Evergrande Group has resumed construction of 63 projects in the southern Pearl River delta, while Country Garden Services Holding raised HK$8 billion ($1 billion) in a share sale.

Concerns about the debt problems of Chinese property developers, a sector that accounts for about a quarter of the domestic steel demand, had recently added pressure on prices of iron ore and steel.

“There’s been a swarm of positive news from Chinese property developers. This is sentiment-driven, nothing has actually changed,” managing director at Navigate Commodities Atilla Widnell told Reuters.

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