SBNA News and Press, Scorpio Tankers Inc. 6.75% Senior Notes due 2020

In early April 2020, I returned from a fourteen-month writing sabbatical. As I had intentions of relaunching on Marketplace, which I did on May 12, 2020 , I had my nose to the grindstone and was burning up my keyboard sharing my best ideas with Seeking Alpha free site readers in anticipation ...

June's thirteen new preferred stocks are offering an average annual dividend (coupon) of 6.8 percent, an average current yield (which does not consider reinvested dividends or capital gain/loss) of 6.8 percent and an average Yield-To-Call (which does consider reinvested dividends and capital g...

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly half of the world's population has been in lockdown mode. Fewer planes are in the sky, and fewer cars are on the street. That has caused global oil demand to plummet. The weak global oil demand, combined with global oil oversupply, has flooded the world...

“If everybody indexed, the only word you could use is chaos, catastrophe…The markets would fail.” – John Bogle, May 2017 "I will go to my grave... believing that really loose monetary policy greatly contributed to the Financial Crisis. There were obviously pr...

Scorpio Tankers Inc. (STNG) Q1 2020 Earnings Conference Call May 06, 2020, 09:00 AM ET Company Participants Brian Lee - CFO Emanuele Lauro - CEO Robert Bugbee - President Cameron Mackey - COO Lars Dencker Nielsen - Commercial Director James Doyle - Senior Financial Analyst ...

As I have mentioned since returning to writing on Seeking Alpha, in early April 2020, through a lot of self reflection and examination, I have made a concerted effort to push myself to get better as an investor. This means moving beyond one's comfortable zone and traversing new terrain. In oth...

There has been a lot of focus on the floating storage strategy in the dirty tanker market because of the contago in crude oil future prices. However, many distillates futures are in contango as well. While some companies operate strictly in the dirty tanker market (crude oil) others operate ei...

I have read both bullish and bearish cases for the oil tankers and I have to conclude that the bearish case for oil tankers is absolutely ridiculous. Imagine that it cost $100,000 to build a condo. Under normal circumstances, you can rent for an amount that allows you to have net income of $...

Shipping Markets: Unique Opportunities vs. Volatility With COVID-19 shutting down the majority of the global economy, investing in shipping is not a natural instinct. However, as I've learned from over a decade of covering this sector, knee-jerk viewpoints are rarely correct. Moreso than ...

Introduction In this monthly article, I review all the baby bonds, listed on a national exchange, sorted into several categories. There are 192 issues in our database that trade on primary exchanges. Since there is no common ETF for baby bonds only, I'll examine the two largest primary excha...