The BDI (Baltic Dry Index) gained another 45 points earlier on today and now reads 1,612 points – over and above the 1,600 point-threshold, thanks to the unprecedented Capes skyrise!…
BCI
The Markets and Geopolitics: Lighting never strikes twice…
The Market “euphoria” doesn’t have the anticipated continuity as some thought, particularly when the Capers had a minus six points today given its 271, 154, 111 and 173 points daily…
The BDI@555; no fuming, …just smoking*
With another 16 points plus earlier on today since last Friday’s closing, the BDI (Baltic Dry Index) at 555 is trying to maintain a level of fewer losses given that…
Difficult days, months and possible years ahead for the BDI…
With five points plus since yesterday the BDI at 414 freezes everything for until 2020! This is a very extreme, but orthologistic projection, given the current state of global affairs,…
Continuous uncertainty keeps the markets stranded
Despite the plus three and the 24 points since last week (BDI@291) the Baltic Dry Index standing today at 315 gives you the picture of the actual situation prevailing in…
Mid-week BDI blues @ 290…
Mid-week BDI blues @ 290… and Geopolitics blues; John Faraclas special midweek report: Drop, …Drop, ..Drop; where’s the stop? With minus one point the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) stood at 290…
With the BDI now @ 297 only good prospects are ahead…
What a business week-ending that was today with the BDI minus one point at 297, which is also minus 20 points since last Friday’s closing being 317 points and the…
@ 310 the BDI looks to settle
John Faraclas reports on the state of the shipping markets: Another all-time record low of the BDI at 310, four points lower since yesterday! The Capers’ BCI 2014 gained two…
A sea change…for the BDI @325…
Another 12 points down, another all times low record… making the BDI’s history more than interesting! The John Faraclas daily market commentary: The Capes minus 19 points at 216 approaching…
The BDI @ 337…and the Market completely bottoms-out
Hurray, amids the one-in-a-life-time Marine Money London conference at The Dorchester on Park Lane during lunch when the indices were available, at last we are seeing the bottom so soon…
The Market @ 358: As you like it…*
What a multi-crash that was today, if I may say so myself! The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) was minus five points at 358… The Capers and their BCI 2015 up,…
Crashing BDI clocks 363…
Once again we witnessed yet another fall of the BDI, this time losing six points and clocking 363; that’s a real crush given what has happened over the last two…
The BDI @ 369
It is interesting how important the numbers are and Numerology is a must for all to understand and know what some fundamentals in life mean; if not, then the choice…
At 373 the BDI brings you now down to your senses…
It’s going to be an interesting weekend this one; after eight days of continuous fall, the index does make sense! Grounded at 373 the Baltic Dry Index has a case…
The BDI at 383: as sure eggs is eggs*
No blah blah; the repercussions of the collapsed market can be found in the statements of all companies’ CEOs today and in the days to come before 90 centum are…
The BDI at 402: between the devil and the deep blue sea…
Time and again we have warned all those with vested interest in the shipping adventure to take cover; from what we can see, very few did; the results are…
The BDI at 415: yet another expected bombshell
The indices dive more dangerously as never before: John Faraclas comments on a day the 400 points barrier of the BDI was about to break: “I heard the news today…
The other side of the BDI’s catastrophe at 445…
Being cool and thinking positive, subject you have in place well in advance a contingency plan based on a pragmatic risk assessment, pays off! John Faraclas comments: You might think…
The BDI at 468; that sinking feeling…
The geopolitics and “the Economy stupid” – to …paraphrase the former US President Bill Clinton, the world economic chaos, religous wars, energy issues, China et al are the parameters which…
Shipping Markets: Blessing in disguise*…!
Whilst “expecting” the lift off, on …ground zero the situ so far on Christmas Eve; John Faraclas notes: BDI standing at 483 points, that’s plus three since yesterday; the BCI plus…
The Saigon moment* for the Shipping Markets
With the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) stranded below the 500 point mark and the industry desperately looking the way towards the 2, 000 mark safety points for the Dry Markets…
Shipping Markets are just a flash in the pan*
With the BDI minus four points at 474, the Capers and its BCI index down 27 points at 485, and despite the Panamaxes dozen points up at 445 the markets…
The dire …straits of the low BDI; who will survive…?
Our fiftieth weekly recapitulation of the shipping markets, their respective main indices and world geopolitics affecting same in 2015 and beyond, tonight Friday the 11th of December 2015, with John Faraclas…
Diving (yet again) Shipping Markets; what’s next…
Our forty-ninth weekly recapitulation of the shipping markets, their respective main indices and world geopolitics affecting same in 2015 and beyond, tonight Friday the 4th of December 2015, with…
Shipping Market …Cyclone; inexplicable changes at the rock bottom. And then…
Our forty-eighth weekly recapitulation of the shipping markets, their respective main indices and world geopolitics affecting same in 2015 and beyond, tonight Friday the 27th of November 2015, with John Faraclas…