Comment / On the wires: Hapag-Lloyd starts to sink – the container shipping casino returns to town

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By Alessandro Pasetti

09/07/2019

“Up or down from here, then, for the German tiger of container shipping? Good luck to the short sellers who plan to bet against it at current prices – and if you are long, good luck to you too: you have no margin of safety whatsoever.” – Loadstar Premium, 28 June 2019.

Casino: I will make this nice and sweet, not a single unnecessary word wasted. Ten days ago, I wrote: “Propelled by ’M&A upside’, is Hapag-Lloyd’s irrational rally unstoppable?”

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