TRADE AND COMMODITIES
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Jun 19, 2009 03:35 PM
- Vale slashes ore price
- BRAZILIAN miner Vale has slashed 2009 benchmark iron ore prices by as much as 48.3% for Japanese and South Korean steelmakers.
- Economou says dry bulk orders ‘a bloodbath’
- UP TO 50% of the dry bulk newbuilding orderbook will be cancelled or suffer delivery delays in the next three years, according to DryShips chairman and chief executive George Economou.
- Dry bulk asset values predicted to fall
- THE dry bulk market is approaching a false horizon and asset values are set to fall before they strengthen any more, industry experts have warned.



