Iron ore price logs weekly loss on soft demand but China stimulus limits fall
Steel consumption has seasonally slowed, denting appetite for feedstocks including iron ore.
Australia’s Fortescue Metals said on Thursday that due to weak credit market conditions it had dropped plans to proceed with a previously announced $1 billion unsecured term loan facility. The loan was launched in the United States on Monday by JP Morgan , according to Loan Pricing Corp, a Reuters news service. It was syndicated in the range of 375-400 basis point over London Interbank Offered Rates (Libor), it said.