Star Bulk Carriers: Not Best-Now Shipping Stock - Zim Integrated A Better Current Payoff Prospect
Summary
- The Covid world-wide pandemic disrupts everything, particularly transportations often taken largely to be rather schedule-able, like ocean shipping.
- Known capacities of carriers, established volumes of demand, seasonal patterns, improved weather monitoring & forecasting, increased competitive anticipations, all fostered routines – until human lifetime urgencies interceded.
- The new scene perhaps has some new economics. It certainly has fostered new competitors, new stocks appearing in volume trade transaction orders to Market-Makers from institutional investors.
- Regular market routines require MM hedging activities which reveal expectations for limits to coming price ranges. Where real capital of substance from both sides of the trade is present.
- This article is a market-prices expectancy near-term comparison report, not some guess about a years-from-now P/E outcome of corporate competitive capabilities, or whether or not they could happen.
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