SEA News and Press, Invesco Shipping From 02/20/19

Something has to give. Starting to be a fascinating phenomenon: Rates charged by trucking companies and other transportation providers continue to surge on a year-over-year basis even as the volume of shipments has dropped below where it had been a year ago, while the "capacity squeeze" of 2...

India, the world's second-biggest crude oil importer, absorbed around 9.5% of global trade flows last year. The country has been recently switching to new suppliers of crude oil, having an impact to the rest of the global market. Data available by IHS Markit's Commodities at Sea [1] suggests,...

Until recently, the shipping sector was one of the most unknown and obscure equity spaces for me and many other investors in Spain. However, my interest, and that of many others, woke up after the leading Spanish fund manager Francisco García Paramés heavily invested in the sector ...

The Baltic Dry Index represents the cost of renting an ocean-going container ship to move goods from, say, Chinese factories to the Port of Los Angeles. The more stuff being made and sold, the higher the demand for such ships, and thus, the higher the price to rent one. And vice versa. This ...

A Slowing U.S. Economy and Rising U.S. Inflation Create a Fed Dilemma The U.S. Federal Reserve since 1977 has been required to follow a dual mandate in which it must simultaneously "promote effectively the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates....