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“Zombie Ships” – Why Global Shipping Is Even Worse Than The Baltic Dry Suggests
“Zombie Ships” – Why Global Shipping Is Even Worse Than The Baltic Dry Suggests One glance at The Baltic Dry Index’s collapse is all that most need to see the painful state of the global shipping industry. However, as gCaptain reports, reality is even worse as the boom in so-called “zombie ships” suggests there is no recovery in […]
What If The Imploding Baltic Dry Index Does Reflect Global Trade After All
What If The Imploding Baltic Dry Index Does Reflect Global Trade After All Earlier today, the Baltic Dry Index hit a new all time low. This is not new: we have been tracking the collapse of the Baltic Dry – aside for the occasional dead cat bounce – to all time lows, a proxy of […]
Seven Ways TPP Favours Mega-rich Foreign Investors, Not Canadians
Seven Ways TPP Favours Mega-rich Foreign Investors, Not Canadians And why there’s still time for Trudeau to reject it. The Trudeau government still has options to push for renegotiation or to decline either to sign or to ratify the TPP on Canada’s behalf. Protest photo by arindambanerjee via Shutterstock. The Harper government agreed to the text of the […]
Lowest Ever: The Baltic Dry Index Plunges To 394 As Global Trade Grinds To A Standstill
Lowest Ever: The Baltic Dry Index Plunges To 394 As Global Trade Grinds To A Standstill For the first time ever, the Baltic Dry Index has fallen under 400. As I write this article, it is sitting at 394. To be honest, I never even imagined that it could go this low. Back in early August, […]
A “Perfect Storm Is Coming” Deutsche Warns As Baltic Dry Falls To New Record Low
A “Perfect Storm Is Coming” Deutsche Warns As Baltic Dry Falls To New Record Low Following disappointing China PMI data and a collapse in US ISM Manufacturing imports data, the fact that TheBaltic Dry Index has collapsed to fresh record lows will hardly be a surprise to many. However,as Deutsche Bank warns, a “perfect storm” is brewing […]
Global Trade Just Snapped: Container Freight Rates Plummet 70% In 3 Weeks
Global Trade Just Snapped: Container Freight Rates Plummet 70% In 3 Weeks “This market is looking like a disaster and the rates are a reflection of that,” warns one of the world’s largest shipbrokers, but while The Baltic Dry Freight Index gets all the headlines – having collapsed to all-time record lows this week – it is the spefics […]
The Long, Cold Winter Ahead
The Long, Cold Winter Ahead Not Immune Cold winds of deflation gust across the autumn economic landscape. Global trade languishes and commodities rust away like abandoned scrap metal with a visible dusting of frost. The economic optimism that embellished markets heading into 2015 have cooled as the year moves through its final stretch. Photo credit: David […]
The Baltic Dry Shipping Index Just Collapsed To An All-Time Record Low
The Baltic Dry Shipping Index Just Collapsed To An All-Time Record Low I was absolutely stunned to learn that the Baltic Dry Shipping Index had plummeted to a new all-time record low of 504 at one point on Thursday. I have written a number of articles lately about the dramatic slowdown in global trade, but I […]
Global Trade (Still) In Freefall: Imports Collapse At Largest Three US Ports
Global Trade (Still) In Freefall: Imports Collapse At Largest Three US Ports We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: global growth and trade are grinding to a halt. Back in September, we flagged comments from WTO chief economist Robert Koopman who warned that after a “burst of globalization”, we are now “at a point of […]
We Have Never Seen Global Trade Collapse This Dramatically Outside Of A Major Recession
We Have Never Seen Global Trade Collapse This Dramatically Outside Of A Major Recession If you have been watching for the next major global economic downturn, you can now stop waiting, because it has officially arrived. Never before in history has global trade collapsed this dramatically outside of a major worldwide recession. And this makes […]
Trans-Pacific Partnership text has been released
Trans-Pacific Partnership text has been released Canada has entered into side letters with U.S., Japan, Malaysia as part of deal New Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, left, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seen with Canadian Governor General David Johnston, right, will be challenged early by how they respond to a critical economic agreement that was negotiated […]
Global Trade In Freefall: China Container Freight At Record Low; Rail Traffic Tumbles, Trucking Slows Down
Global Trade In Freefall: China Container Freight At Record Low; Rail Traffic Tumbles, Trucking Slows Down Over the past year we have regularly contended that a far greater threat to the global economy than either corporate earnings, currency devaluations, rate cuts (or hikes), reserve outflow, or even the stock market, is the sudden, global trade […]
18 Numbers That Scream That A Crippling Global Recession Has Arrived
18 Numbers That Scream That A Crippling Global Recession Has Arrived The stock market has been soaring, but all of the hard economic numbers are telling us that a major global recession is here. This is so reminiscent of what happened back in 2008. Back then, all of the fundamentals were screaming “recession” by the […]
What’s up with the global economy, and where do we go from here?
What’s up with the global economy, and where do we go from here? A deflationary spiral, such as is now becoming evident globally, acts as a natural poison. It now appears that the grand yearly addition to total human wealth, the global GNP, is no longer growing. If so, this means the world is headed […]
Global Trade Is Collapsing As The Worldwide Economic Recession Deepens
Global Trade Is Collapsing As The Worldwide Economic Recession Deepens When the global economy is doing well, the amount of stuff that is imported and exported around the world goes up, and when the global economy is in recession, the amount of stuff that is imported and exported around the world goes down. It is […]
