Here comes supply chain deflation

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Maersk was very bearish overnight.

AP Møller-Maersk warned of a “radically changed business environment” as profits plunged at the world’s second-largest container shipping line and worries grew about a wave of new ships soon to add to pressure on the industry.

The Danish shipping and logistics group beat analyst expectations in the first quarter but cautioned that earnings for the rest of the year would be weaker even as it forecast improved demand in the second half.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.