Author archives: Edward Hutton

FIS Castaway Podcast Episode 17

Nervous you don’t know enough about Air Freight Futures? Surely you can’t be serious…. Tune in to this week’s episode of FIS Castaway to learn more on AFFAs, and get the usual commodity market analysis from the FIS team. Available now on the FIS website (www.freightinvestorservices.com/media ) Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7yMLsm5s8tLtrCQr7bG8wD?si=FW6Rvj9HRjClAx3vRjq8iw And Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/fis-castaway/id1507094242 Disclaimer: freightinvestorservices.com/castaway-disclaimer/

Steel and Scrap News

*Physical scrap reaches one-month high Another busy week on the physical front with the latest fixture completed by a Baltic based seller at levels $5 up from last done. The 35kt cargo included 29kt HMS 80:20 and 6kT bonus scrap, transacted at $265/t CFR and $275/t CFR respectively, with first-half August shipment. Scrap futures have …

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Oil Through the Looking Glass 22/7/20

*Narrowing Fuel Oil Contango The dropping contango structure of the fuel oil curve may encourage traders to offload stored supplies of fuel to protect against falling future margins. The front Aug/Sep spread was marked at flat this morning, as the VLSFO market followed the lead of the HSFO in moving from contango back into backwardation. The …

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