A structural shift in road freight – who are the winners, and losers?
The road freight sector is “undergoing a change in structure”, according to Transport Intelligence (Ti) ...
Quick and dirty: if you ever had a chance to be squeezed between the world of trade and finance, whichever sector you covered, you are well aware they are totally different and separate fields in so many ways.
The guys who know their market, usually the smart executives, often lack the financial savvy of the analysts, while the sell-side research often struggles to understand the inner mechanics that characterise trade. This generally holds true regardless of the sector in question.
So when UBS released ...
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