The LME Nickel Crisis with Jack Farchy
The HC Commodities Podcast
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The LME's Response to the Short Squeeze
What could the LME have done even if they were still well within their rights to have that position right? I think a very obvious thing to do is to raise margins and you know you talked earlier about the the systemic issues in commodity markets. One thing that has happened is that margin requirements across all markets have gone up dramatically. It's drained liquidity out of markets it's made it very expensive to trade on derivatives markets but it has taken some of that risk of dramatic market moves out of those markets.
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