It has been quite a roller-coaster ride for veteran shipping analyst Natasha Boyden over the past two weeks.

First, she was abruptly sacked from her job of seven years at New York’s Cantor Fitzgerald on 26 March as the bank decided it would leave shipping.

By Monday, Boyden was working at her new job as head of shipping research for New Orleans-based Global Hunter Securities (GHS), sitting alongside longtime Cantor associate Noah Parquette in their new Manhattan offices.

“I’ve