Baltic Trading: Essentially a Baltic Dry Index ETF?

9/6/2010

Andy Wang submits:

New shipper company Baltic Trading (BALT) completed its initial public offering on March 15th. The new company immediately took its 228 million and began buying ships - a selection of cheap ships of varying sizes. Was this really a good time to do a shipper IPO, with shipper stocks suffering the disdain of the market? Maybe so. BALT had an idea for a different kind of shipping company, with a different kind of business plan.

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