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Australia can't bank on an iron ore Trump bump in the long term

  • Written by Lee Smales, Associate Professor, Finance, Curtin University
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Trump’s fiscal policies could mean commodities rally in the short term, boosting the Australian government’s budget, but this could be undone in the long term as his trade policies are bad news for base metals and energy commodities.

Global growth and movements in commodity prices have important implications for the Australian economy....

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