| There's more grim news ahead for Australia's commodities, with all minerals bar iron ore expected to head south. UBS has updated its commodity forecasts offering a mixed outlook, with iron ore expected to do a little better, coal to do worse, and base metals, including copper, expected to plunge.
For iron ore prices at the end of this year, UBS has upgraded forecasts slightly from $US56 to $US57. For the end of 2016 UBS has updated their iron ore price forecast to $US52 per tonne from $US50. The commodity dropped below $US50 last week for the first time since July as the fourth quarter tends to be a weak quarter for Chinese steel production. Steel production in China peaked last year at about 830 million tonnes, according to UBS..............................................Full Article: Source
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