Comment / Conf call redux: AP Møller-Maersk – time to stick your finger in the air

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Maersk chief executive Vincent Clerc launched the firm’s latest earnings call in the style of a TV anchorman, introducing himself and recently installed chief financial officer Robert Erni as if they were about to tell us today’s news and weather forecast.

It was a good news day for ’canny’ Maersk yesterday (as Premium wrote: ’Where financial discipline dictates strategy’), and the forecast is looking sunny – notwithstanding the storm clouds that have gathered over the Middles East, and after an update ...