Coronavirus cases continue to mount world-wide. It’s getting to the point now where we all know somebody with symptoms and nearly...

Last week we reported some Chinese state statistics that detailed the impact of Covid-19 on the economy in January and February, for...

Governments around the world are taking extraordinary action to try to slow the spread of Covid-19, which now numbers more cases outside...

Black Swan one is Coronavirus, the Mummy of public health scares. OK the global infection rate is much smaller than flu and the mortality...

To add to last week’s portents of doom, China (as you will no doubt have seen already) released dismal Purchasing Managers Indices last...

The global economy has grown slowly since the financial crash of 2008, but it has grown consistently to recover lost production. Even in...

The legendary Irish columnist Fintan O’ Toole wrote a piece at the weekend for the UK’s Observer (a Sunday newspaper) in which he was...

Renowned philanthropist and exterminator of typing pools Bill Gates has ordered a luxurious super-yacht, his first as it turns out. The...

On 30th January The World Health Organisation declared on a global health emergency. Nobody has died of Corona Virus in the US, but that...

The Wuhan Coronavirus and China’s nationwide public health emergency have caused a flurry of speculation about how the shipping markets...

Millions of virtue-signalling, eco-woke words have been written about the Australian bush fires and how they are a signal for the climate...

The US Middle East policy of shoot first and explain afterwards continues to bear fruit. The assassination of Iran’s military commander...

I started 2019 with a research note about The Asian Century, concluding that within ten years we would all be in the Belt and Road...

The US and China announced their Phase One trade deal on Friday, though it has not yet been signed by either side. The deal reduces some...

On Friday China announced that it would waive import tariffs for some soybeans and pork shipments from the US. It was promoted as a...

I’ve been writing a course on the evolution of the Chinese shipping industry over the last 40 years and its likely trajectory over the...

One of the more depressing charts I have seen shows a global decline in clean energy investment for 2018 with a lower prognosis for 2019....

2019 looks like it may go out with a bang and a whimper. Around the world significant political events are afoot, giving us the bang....

They are a rum bunch, the English. Take this week’s festivities for instance. The English will set off fireworks to commemorate the...

Earlier this month I gave a presentation to an invited audience of oil tanker owners. This in itself is not unusual. What was unusual on...