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Very true Troajan, the Chinese have done a great job of screwing Hong Kong/ Hang Seng up. Xi would have done better sticking to his word. One country, two systems. HK would now still be like Singapore.

When China took over HK it represented 20% of Chinese GDP. Now it represents 2%. Probably why they don’t care what the Hang Seng is doing. Awful shame but what did anyone expect from a communist government. 100 years of freedom gone in the blink of an eye. Taiwan has the same future to look forward to.

Trump wants their rare earth but I shouldn’t think he’d mind if Blackrock get a big share of FXPO.

So was every other ex soviet state in the 90s. They managed to transition to something normal and join the EU. So can Ukraine. Looks like there’s going to be a scramble for their assets in the process. GLA

For sure. 3bn+ bullshi#t claim goes in the day after Trump says he wants access to Ukraine minerals to pay for the war. Funny coincidence.

I agree. Absolute nonsense

Tried dumping the lot. Couldn’t sell

Https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/04/ukraine-war-briefing-trump-demands-rare-earths-from-kyiv-in-exchange-for-aid

I wouldn't describe the situation as Russia winning. They may be advancing but at what cost? Hundreds of thousands dead to advance around 50k in 2024. And for what? To take some towns and cities that are completely destroyed. A population that has largely fled and farm land that is so heavily mined it will take a generation to clear it all. What's Putin think is going to happen if he takes all the Donbas? Everything goes back to business a usual. Very unlikely.

If when America and Britain went into Iraq. If we was 3 years in, over half a million dead or wounded, had only taken about 20% of the country and were nowhere near Baghdad, would you say we was winning? Or would you say this is complete insanity? Putin's an idiot and all his eco has achieved is getting a lot of people killed.

I think its becoming obvious that Trump not only didn't have a plan to end the war in 24hrs, he had no plan to end it at all. Silly American people for voting for the idiot.

Interesting

https://youtu.be/q6klCeHyXM0?si=5xqxASQQPx-VmzS5

Putin will want to keep the Ukrainian territory he currently holds, have sanctions lifted, any war crimes charges dropped and pay no repatriations. I don't see how any deal can be made to facilitate that.

Spot on Sergio, and when these mentally ill people in the Kremlin are gone all will become apparent. The usefully idiots in the west will suddenly wake up and the bots in Russia will disappear under whatever rock they crawled out from.

Putin invaded Ukraine cause he was scared they might actually be a successful democracy and part of the EU. Like Poland, Latvia, Lithuania etc etc. Wouldn’t want another country like that on his boarder would he. The Russian people might diss out the same medice as they did to Gaddafi. Spineless little weasel can’t even visit hos own men on the front line. Yet he says they are fighting for Russia. 😂

That right Troajan. Putin's been humiliated because he tried to force another country under his backward form of government. He's made every mistake in the dictators hand book. Ingrained corruption resulted in a hollowed out military before they even started the war. Complete lack of perspective led him to think he would be welcomed into Ukraine as some kind of liberator. Even to today he's still surrounded by yes people who are telling him what he wants to hear instead of what's actually happening on the ground. Making miliary decisions himself with no military experience what so ever. I could go on. The spineless little weasel dare not even go and visit his own men on the front line cause he knows what will happen if he does.

Slava Ukraini

That’s rubbish. There was never a majority in the Donbas to join Russia and if you think there is now after what’s Putins done to them your daft.

The only person not making money here is you Bob.

Well well well. Good effort FXPO.

Interest chat about Ukraine 45-50 minutes in:

https://youtu.be/hXmmrPiaiG4?si=Ig0L35_YsJ7nLFr5

Q3 production 1,397,698, Q2 production 1,672,506, Q1 production 2,054,830.

I think the trend in 2024 is obvious. I’d speculate Q4 will be below all the previous quarters. I’m hoping for 1mt or there about's. That will put us on track for around 6mt 2024, about half the pre war production level. Not bad under the circumstances. Reduced margins however due to higher energy and transportation costs. Anything under 1mt I think the market will see negatively and we could see a further retrace. Followed by a bounce next week as we head into a Trump presidency. GLA

Always an intelligent view from Chip;

https://youtu.be/cDc2hgcf4vI?si=HfeMw7Uv3qZFK6Da

Https://www.mining.com/web/iron-ore-price-drops-to-over-one-month-low-on-weaker-china-metal-output/