Seahawk Equity L/S Fund – Factsheet May
The broad equity markets have enjoyed another strong performance in the month of May. OPEC+ supply cuts of around $ 9.7mn/barrel have supported the oil price. The price of Brent oil has gone up from $ 25/barrel to $ 35/ barrel at the end of the month. The flattening...
Seahawk Equity L/S Fund – Factsheet April
Equity markets have enjoyed a strong performance in April, following a withering bout of selling prompted by the COVID -19 pandemic. Major benchmark are roughly 30% off-bear market lows put in on March 23. OPEC, Russia and other countries have reached an agreement to...
Seahawk Equity L/S Fund – Factsheet March
As Corona-infections have further increased in Europe and the US during the month of March governments had to enforce quarantine restrictions. These had a particularly negative impact on the sectors of travel and transportation. Given the spill-over-effects into the...
Seahawk Equity L/S Fund – Factsheet February
Equity markets have been stable until the last week of February as active Corona-infection cases seemed to leveloff. Thereafter, global infection statistics gave evidence that the Corona Virus would spread dramatically outside China. Risky assets have sold-off...
Seahawk Equity L/S Fund – Factsheet January
Equity markets started favourably into the new year. US - Iran tensions have temporarily pushed the price of Brent to 70.0 US$/barrel. Subsequently, inventory data issued by the US DOE have shown high inventory levels of crude and oil products. Later, the outbreak of...
Seahawk Equity L/S Fund – Factsheet December
In December, the US and China agreed to a “phase one” deal, cancelling planned American tariffs on Chinese goods and reducing those imposed in September — in exchange for Beijing buying US goods. A breakout in optimism over global trade and supportive policies from...
Seahawk Equity L/S Fund – Factsheet October
After five months of constant escalations the US and China have finally agreed to a series of modest concessions. Another set of US-tariff increases, originally scheduled to take effect on Oct. 15 has been suspended. Moreover, an annualised 1.9% (Q3) US-growth rate...
The growing importance of the Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) market
Issued by: Thang Do, MSc Seahawk Investments GmbH Executive Summary The Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Market will play an important role in tomorrow’s energy market as both gas and renewables are becoming the strongest growing energy segments in the years to come....
Seahawk Equity L/S Fund – Factsheet September 2019
Most equity markets have shown a solid performance during the month of September. After the drone attacks on the Aramco oil refinery in Saudi Arabia oil prices have shown a brief spike up to a level of $ 70/barrel (Brent). Subsequently, tensions in the Middle East...
Shipping Equity Market Outlook
Executive Summary The shipping industry has gone through a typical boom-bust-cylce over the past 10 years and the year 2016 can be seen as the low point. Since then operational profitability of shipping companies has improved significantly and the industry is facing a...