Oil Tanker Rental Now Cheaper Than A Ferrari

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Mark Melin
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Oil keeps tanking and now you can get yourself a Tanker on the cheap…. It is now less expensive to rent a giant, 1,100 foot merchant ship than it is to rent a high end sports car for a day, a recent Bloomberg article pointed out. This highlights a key economic factor in today’s environment and also speaks to the durability of high-end assets in the current market environment. Along with the stock market highs, the price of global shipping tanker rental has fallen — in this case by 92% In August of 2015, as the stock market started the…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.