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Don’t look now, but the iron ore price has a scary message on China

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) •
October 27, 2026 • 11:10 PM
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Analysts see it as yet another bullet point on a growing list of worrying signs about financial markets and the Asian nation’s economy. Pity Jim Chalmers.

Don’t look now, but the iron ore price has a scary message on China

Sorry, Jim. But there’s another problem on the horizon.

While Anthropic’s big show-and-tell moment has gripped the finance world in recent days, and political types are obsessing over the extraordinarily tight election in Israel , commodity markets have just delivered another bit of bad news for Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

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