Global freight markets remain out of balance with unseasonal demand patterns and the Suez Canal blockage leading bunker excluded container rates higher. U.S. auto sales are struggling versus pre-pandemic levels and a chip shortage isn’t helping. Also: Brunswick looks to long-term with Daimler, GM as chips limit Q1 shipping; Illinois Tool Works, Kyocera may see nail tariff costs cut; the future of big boats, digitization and state-funded reshoring; vaccine nationalism is happening everywhere, to a certain extent; Suez investment a simple solution to a difficult problem; bad fuel the lates...