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Hormuz In The Rearview As Asia-US Ocean Container Rates Soar Past $7,900 By Stuart Chirls of AmericanShipper The container shipping market is being driven by geopolitics, rates, and network reshuffling, but freight-rate volatility and adjustments by carriers to protect schedules and pricing has supplanted Middle East disruptions as top-level concerns. Asia-U.S. West Coast prices increased 8% to $6,175 per forty foot equivalent unit (FEU), according to Freightos, a data contributor to SONAR ocean market data. Prices for Asia-U.S. East Coast transportation also rose 8%, to $7,998 per FEU. SONAR‘s Ocean Supply/Demand Index reflects the...

Got Hard Assets? UBS Says "Position For A Commodity Upcycle" As Global Scarcity Emerges One day after veteran commodities strategist Jeff Currie told investors to "get long and buckle up" for the next leg of the commodities rally, UBS strategist Sagar Khandelwal issued a similarly bullish call, urging clients to "position for a commodity upcycle." Khandelwal said electrification, surging power demand, artificial-intelligence infrastructure spending, persistent supply constraints, and years of underinvestment are converging to create a perfect storm for a sustained upcycle in hard assets. Commodities can generate returns while protecting portfolios...

A Surveilled Country Is Not A Free Country Authored by Daniel Nuccio via Brownstone Institute,If you currently live in the United States, I regret to inform you that you no longer live in a free country. You are no longer a free person. Actually, you haven't been for quite some time.This may sound harsh with this being the year America celebrated her big Two-Five-Oh. But think about it. Think back to the last time you drove from your home to the grocery store. How many automatic license plate readers did...