cant agree, tufftech
stockpiling sops up the oversupply - which is why someone the other day posted china has a record 466Mt of steel stockpiled currently
everything sells if the price is low enough.
does not mean the market is in balance or undersupplied. just means that - because steel once made is storable for years - same with copper - people buy it on layaway.
pull the lme copper stockpile chart for 5 years and youll see we're still not yet at the lows of 2013
the prices are fallign because producers have given buyer the whip hand. you can call it perception - but its economics wrapped in perception
game theory talks a lot about this
its why bhp and rio were wrong to try and drive the market down through $110/t in my view - theyve completley reset long term cost and earnings profile for the industry needlessly
rising usd has been a big part too though - but they knew that
cant agree, tufftech stockpiling sops up the oversupply - which...
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