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Trump voters will not like what happens next


..millions of people will take up leaf-raking and garage cleaning with intense pleasure. I'll be one  of them - back whenever..

 

An American Tragedy

David Remnick (The New Yorker)

(USDA) Indian centrifugal sugar production in marketing year (MY) 2016/17 (out-year) is revised down by six percent to 23.9 million metric tons (MMT). Despite higher sugar production in Uttar Pradesh, lower than anticipated sugar production from Maharashtra and Karnataka will further push overall production levels below last year. Assuming normal sugarcane yields and a net decline in planted area, overall sugarcane production during the out-year is now revised lower to 324 MMT from 4.57 million hectares. Commercial trade will be minimal.

California Dreamin: If memory serves, the sugar move in the early seventies went from some 2 cents to some 66 cents. (I believe I know the guy that bought that all-time high tick).

Translating this to “now”, per the bureau of labor statistics inflation calculator, 2 cents in 1973 equals $11 cents now.
And 66 cents in 1973 are equal to $3.63 now.

Therefore, I’m now looking for a sugar move to $3.63. The Presidential debate is over, time for another whisky -
$ 3.63 HA

All you heavy Orange Juice drinkers may want to stock up - in case it makes "all time" new highs..

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Brexit cost investors $2 trillion, the worst one day drop ever

(CNBC)Worldwide markets hemorrhaged more than $2 trillion in paper wealth on Friday, according to data from S&P Global, the worst on record. For context, that figure eclipsed the whipsaw trading sessions of the 2008 financial crisis, according to S&P analyst Howard Silverblatt.

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Dry Bulk Shipping To Witness Steady Progress Moving Forward On The Back Of Growing Trade Volumes Says BIMCO

“We are still worried about the sustainability of freight rates in the years to come. Our main worry is that demolition activity will slow down as the BDI improves. If shipowners slow demolition of ships considerably, the fleet will keep growing. This will widen the fundamental imbalance further because we forecast the demand side to grow slowly in the coming years. In order to reverse several years of adding capacity in excess of demand growth, we need to develop a multi-year trend of negative fleet growth. BIMCO assess the current utilisation rate of the dry bulk fleet at the low end of the 70s”, said the report.

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Where in this cycle are we? - (YOU?)

Zombie ships send maritime freight into worst crisis in living memory Cheap debt, the China slowdown, and a glut of ships have seen the Baltic Dry Index plummet to its lowest level in more than 30 years

Mercator to exit dry bulk shipping business due to downturn  
Mercator decides to exit dry bulk cargo business carried on by its Singapore unit by way of divestment as part of its ongoing portfolio-restructuring exercise

 Baltic Exchange Capesize index in new low


 Opportunities are emerging to tempt those with strong nerves..

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