Container trade economics – what to look for now
Making sense of a fools’ game
All,
Please join the priest and the altar lady in silent prayer after some of the findings in the third-quarter numbers (Q3 ’20) released by Deutsche Post DHL (DP-DHL) last week on Tuesday – which were broadly in-line with the pre-Q3 ’20 announcement five weeks ago or so.
In short, what it gained one day in early October on the stock market, it lost last week – barring broader trading considerations. Try again? Uhmm.
A minute of silence too for the sell-side, with consensus estimates still ...
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