"Nowhere To Hide" As Baltic 'Fried' Index Careens To Fresh Record Low
Another day, another fresh all-time record low in The Baltic Dry Index as Deutsche Bank's "perfect storm" appears ever closer on the horizon. Plunging 4.7% overnight to 445 points, this is 20% lower than the previous record low in 1986 and as one strategist warns, "It’s a brutal start of the year, there’s just nowhere to hide on the market."

"This looks like a ripple effect from what happened back in August," adds Alexandre Baradez, chief market analyst at IG France, hopefully looking forward, "it might continue for a few weeks, but given China’s central bank fire power, it shouldn’t last for more than that."
But Deutsche's "perfect storm" looms...
The improvement in dry bulk rates we expected into year-end has not materialized. And based on conversations we've had with several industry contacts, we believe a number of dry bulk companies are contemplating asset sales to raise liquidity, lower daily cash burn, and reduce capital commitments. The glut of "for sale" tonnage has negative implications for asset and equity values. More critically, it can easily lead to breaches in loan-to-value covenants at many dry bulk companies, shortening the cash runway and likely necessitating additional dilutive actions.
Dry bulk companies generally have enough cash for the next 1yr or so, but most are not well positioned for another leg down in asset values
The majority of publically listed dry bulk companies have already taken painful measures to adapt to the market- some have filed Chapter 11, others have issued equity at deep discounts, and most have tried to delay/defer/cancel newbuilding deliveries.
The additional cushion, however, is likely not enough if asset values take another leg down; especially given the majority of publically listed dry bulk companies are already near max allowable LTV levels.
The move to sell assets in unison can lead to a downward spiral, where the decline in values leads to an immediate need for additional equity to cure LTV breaches.
Source: Deustche Bank
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3-2-1 until claims of overcapacity being the exclusive cause of this mentioned on cnbc...
talk about limp index. That is a scariest chart i have ever seen. This is a major slow down.
Are we going to get DIRP? We'll pay you to ship something.
Let's put the BLS in charge of tracking...we'll have those numbers up in no time.
Maybe we can get China to ship us, at their expense, bearings.
Maybe they will pay us to take them.
Upside down...
;-)
DoChen, is that you?
It is. Do Chen is a good guy.
D=????
D.I.R.P. == "D" Interest Rate Policy
D = Dry
There are no secrets in the Dry Bulk industry. The slaughter has been going on for years. The run up in the mid 2000's in commidty prices and chinese demand fueled a huge order book of ships. Lifespan for a ship is 30 years. With a systemic slowdown in China, there's just too many ships for the amount of cargo and there has been for many years now. It's a volatile index and is heavily dependent on supply. Not really a great leading economic indicator though and surely not a smoking gun for economic activity.
We'll call this decline the dipship!
that is the scariest thing you've showed me today, tyler.
+1
Wait til he sends you a nude pic of himself.
New low everyday.
Ship happens.
I shipped my pants.
One of the best commercials ever.
Without a doubt.
Ships belong in the water, a dry ship never carried squat. News Flash: put the ships in the water and move stuff. the fix: the Baltic Wet Index. Geeze, no wonder these people can't make money.
Wetting my pants, thanks.
I just shipped my bed !!
I shipped my bed.
Sorry.....centerline. Didn't see you there first.
TRANSITORY
Going to have to start benchmarking the god damn Phoenians.
HAHHAHAHA !! +1000
Shiny, things are starting to get interesting now that all the bad numbers are starting to pile up. Almost ready to go to plaid.......
barf
Needs to adjusted for the weather.
Yes El Nino again.
It would be soooo funny if the market began to really shit the bed epic right at 3:30.
Poetic justice
I was going to make a joke about Kevin Henry hitting the sell button by mistake then I remembered he doesn't have a sell button.
Baltic Fried! lol We clearly need bigger ships to no-where?
Gigantic cargo ship to call at Los Angeles port | 89.3 KPCC
These clowns at CNBS are asses and elbows deep in Bull Shit!
This is a ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships
Ya know, if we loaded all those shipping ships with shippable shit we might not be in the quandry we're in.
Free shipping!!!
Free Ships !!
Free shipping!!!
Joke away guys, but has anyone noticed that dirt cheap freight rates are not
being reflected in the price of goods, a bottle of, say, Scotch imported from
the UK is still full bore price on the shelf,
Fuck you Woolworth's, and others, you thieving bunch of shits.......
Seriously, what could possibly turn this around? Even if the CBs save the industries, there is no demand from consumers (that can afford demand). I suppose we could go to sub-sub prime loaning to keep the Baltic Dry Index, dry but running?
We clearly need to further reduce payrolls, and Cap-Ex, so that we can monetize our value through stock buybacks @Zirp.
Especially on the last day of the month , or quarter...
If that will work we should do it. Thanks
" I suppose we could go to sub-sub prime loaning "
Pretty much. The high yield poop needs to keep flushing via new debt roll issues or the toilet gets stopped up.
less ships is the answer. Unfortunately there is little to no incentive to scrap or slow down new builds.
Baltic Dry All Wet
No need for ships anymore! Jeff Bezo over at Amazon sez he'll drone deliver everything!
See how simple it is. To many folks are over thinking this shit!
FUBAR
Baltic Drone Index
We're gonna need a bigger (scape) goat.
Scapeboat if you will.
The blood will flow tomorrow. Or, some Fed wonk will make a noncommittal statement about QE to a hotdog vendor that somehow gets to CNBC and the market shoots up 400. Go figure.
At some point they have to stop the market slide to avoid margin calls. Unless that's what they want.