China’s Steps Turn Iron Into World’s Most Volatile Commodity
- Iron ore has flipped between bull and bear markets since May
- China’s steel policy is a key factor in whipsawing prices
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Iron ore, one of the hottest commodities in the early days of the raw materials rally, has now become the most volatile as bulls and bears joust over the trajectory of prices.
In a series of wild swings, the ore that fuels China’s vast steel industry surged to a record, collapsed into a bear market and then returned to a bull market in the space of about a month. Its gyrations in the past 30 days mark the mineral as the most volatile of the two dozen most traded commodities around the world.