{"id":3890,"date":"2012-03-20T00:59:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T04:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2012-03-20T00:59:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T04:59:30","slug":"bhp-china-iron-ore-demand-flattening-out-wsj-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/20\/bhp-china-iron-ore-demand-flattening-out-wsj-com\/","title":{"rendered":"BHP: China Iron Ore Demand &#039;Flattening Out&#039; &#8211; WSJ.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>STEPHEN BELL:<\/strong> China&#8217;s demand for iron ore is &#8216;flattening out&#8217;, a senior executive at BHP Billiton Ltd. said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Demand growth for the commodity used to make steel will drop &#8220;to single digits if it is not already there,&#8221; Ian Ashby told a press conference in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304724404577292362859587338.html?mod=djemalertMARKET'>BHP: China Iron Ore Demand &#039;Flattening Out&#039; &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEPHEN BELL: China&#8217;s demand for iron ore is &#8216;flattening out&#8217;, a senior executive at BHP Billiton Ltd. said Tuesday. Demand growth for the commodity used to make steel will drop &#8220;to single digits if it is not already there,&#8221; Ian Ashby told a press conference in Perth. via BHP: China Iron Ore Demand &#039;Flattening Out&#039; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/20\/bhp-china-iron-ore-demand-flattening-out-wsj-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BHP: China Iron Ore Demand &#039;Flattening Out&#039; &#8211; WSJ.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,41,8,57],"tags":[424,663,1902],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-nz-countries-regions","category-china-hk","category-gold-commodities","category-stock-markets","tag-bhp-billiton","tag-china","tag-iron-ore"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BHP: China Iron Ore Demand &#039;Flattening Out&#039; - WSJ.com - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BHP: China Iron Ore Demand &#039;Flattening Out&#039; - WSJ.com - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"STEPHEN BELL: China&#8217;s demand for iron ore is &#8216;flattening out&#8217;, a senior executive at BHP Billiton Ltd. said Tuesday. 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