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Doric Weekly Market Insight
In a typical spiritless Q1 week, the Baltic Dry Index trended downwards
“Looking forward, Chinese households have accumulated $2.6tn of bank deposits last year alone, feverishly heating the pent-up demand engine and building higher expectations for the months to come.”
Mazars Comment: The Risk Of A Financial Accident Is Being Removed
Having said that, we can’t break out the champagne just yet
One of the key risks we persistently flagged in the second part of last year has been the swiftly rising risks in the bond market.
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Recent Weakness In Chinese Consumer Spending
Inflation grew year-on-year by 1.8% and retail sales fell year-on-year by 1.8%
December’s consumer electronics and appliance sales in China totaled only 79.4 billion yuan which marked a year-on-year contraction of 15%.
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Signal Dry Bulk Weekly Report
Snapshot of Spot Freight Rates, Supply-Demand Trends, Port Congestions
The first few days of February seem to provide a somewhat firmer outlook for freight rates, although the number of ballasters has increased in all ship size classes except the Supramax segment.
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Shipfix-Global Market Update
Macro/Geopolitics, Commodity Markets, Freight and Bunker Markets
The International Monetary Fund began the year with a few pessimistic statements regarding the outlook for the global economy from some of its leading officials, which led many to assume that the organisation was preparing the ground for a downgrade of its economic projections.
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Will Russia Struggle To Find New Buyers For Its Diesel?
Surely a lot of uncertainty ahead
We review the trends in Russian diesel, crude and other products for exports, imports and oil on the water, singling out factors that define the ease of reshuffling.
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Breakwave Bi-Weekly Dry Bulk Report - January 31, 2023
Chinese New Year celebrations are over, now what?
One of the slowest weeks of the year in terms of Chinese activity is now behind us, and the bulk commodity markets are once again looking forward to what the consensus sees as a solid rebound in physical demand for materials.
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Breakwave Maritime Decarbonization Report - January In Review
“Politicians urged to set more ambitious green fuel regulations”
More than 40 signatories,representing the entire green fuels value chain, have written a joint letter urging policymakers to seek proactive and ambitious measures in the FuelEU Maritime discussions
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China's Coal Imports From Russia Jumped By 19% Last Year
Indonesia have remained China’s primary source
Coal import data for December by origin has been released
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Nickel gains despite looming wave of supply
Doubts on the strength of China’s reopening weighed on sentiment
Markets remained range bound as the post-FOMC rally petered out on a stronger USD.
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