November 11, 2009 – 7:44 pm
We had a big day for shipping firms today in the stock market, with SEA (Claymore-Delta Global Shipping ETF) moving up over 3%, and some shipping companies posting gigantic advances: EGLE up 16%, OCNF up 15%, GNK up 15%. So what is the real reason for the sudden optimism in this beaten-down, depressed and desolate […]
October 21, 2009 – 1:05 pm
After a thrilling two-week rally in the stock market during early September, shippers began to fall. They had been enjoying a nice rally on the general premise of economic recovery, market stabilization, and rising materials prices. But suddenly on September 17th, the shipper sector broke, and leading names fell - plummeted, actually, at a much […]
All shippers are down today. Unfortunately we are in for a slide, it would appear. I keep a personal spread-sheet style shippers index which shows a decline today of 2.8%, which is a big decline for this normally placid group. I unloaded a lot of my shipper positions yesterday, to attempt better timing. With the […]
I was in shock at the turnaround. My shipping index was up 4.4%. (At 98.6) EXM was up over 20%! GNK, TBSI, EGLE, all up big. But the S&P was only up half a percent or so. So what is going on?
My first thought - ok, so the S&P head and shoulders formation is complete, […]
Well, the Fed held the interest rates steady, as expected by most. The techs led the market up. Just before the Fed announcement came out, I said on the member board:
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what I do see is that VIX is near 21; if it pushes lower, […]