Negative sentiment on oil patch in new US presidency played its part as shipping finally underperforms broader market
Finance
Okeanis VLCC’s top-dollar China run shows scrubber premium
Brazilian fixture ties up Greek tanker at $17,000 per day to ride out weak market
Scorpio Bulkers’ wind shift blew Evermore in direction of Oslo’s Cadeler
Investment firm has 2% stake in Swire/BW-backed wind-turbine installation vessel player
Cosco looking to widen OOIL share base in $120m deal
JP Morgan brought in to find buyers for Hong Kong container line’s stock
CTM supramax pool outperforms index as volumes jump in turbulent year
Radziwill-run bulker revenue sharing agreement says pandemic forced it to find new ways of working
Evermore Global may have cut shipping stake in 2020 — but it will not be for good
New Jersey investor more than halved its stake, but says it will be back with bigger positions in fewer names
GLOBAL & REGIONAL DAILY (Monday 25 January, 2021)
GLOBAL & REGIONAL DAILY (Monday 25 January, 2021)
GLOBAL & REGIONAL DAILY
January 25 2021
Global Markets
Risk-on sentiment prevailed in the majority of global equity markets earlier today, as optimism that Biden Administration’s $1.9trn stimulus proposal would help revive the US economy offset concerns that the virus impact would probably last longer than expected amid delays in vaccine supplies and Covid-19 mutations from various parts of the world. Focus this week is on the FOMC policy meeting...
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Lack of trust opens door for cryptocurrencies, Innovation in the financial sector: Navigating the digital transformation
Lack of trust opens door for cryptocurrencies, Innovation in the financial sector: Navigating the digital transformation
Monday 25 January 2021 – Vol.12 Ed.4.1
Commentary: Lack of trust opens door for cryptocurrencies
By Steve Hanke in Baltimore
Few central banks have been able to implement policies that have garnered much trust. There are exceptions, but not many. This brings us to the rise of cryptocurrencies. Lack of trust in central banks and national currencies set the stage for the arrival of...
What a mess: Triumph details problems with big factoring client acquired from Covenant
The Triumph Bancorp acquisition of the TFS factoring division of Covenant Logistics earlier this year was delayed once because of disputes, but since the transaction was completed for roughly $105 million, it has become a headache for the acquirers.
While Triumph laid out some of the problems in the sale in a clinical way when releasing its fourth-quarter 2020 earnings late Thursday, it was on the earnings call with analysts a day later that CEO Aaron Graft could spell out in detail the problems...
Have ‘masters of the tanker cycle’ DHT Holdings timed it right again?
Clarksons Platou says modern VLCC pair bought from Awilco likely to make money soon