{"id":12365,"date":"2009-10-06T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12365"},"modified":"2009-10-06T08:01:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T12:01:14","slug":"the-mystery-investor-who-is-turning-the-tin-market-on-its-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2009\/the-mystery-investor-who-is-turning-the-tin-market-on-its-head.html","title":{"rendered":"The mystery investor who is turning the tin market on its head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph &#8211; A single investor \u2013 thought to be a hedge fund \u2013 is sitting on thousands of tonnes of tin in warehouses across London. According to traders almost the entire stocks of tin on the London Metals Exchange (LME) was bought up by a single, mysterious investor, last week.<\/p>\n<p>One fund has warrants for more than 90pc of all physical tin stocks because the market rules dictate that above this threshold, the buyer must lend out the commodity, if asked, at the cash price with no premium.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial buyers are furious that they are paying up to $730 per tonne for immediate delivery more than it would cost them to buy three-month futures contracts, arguing this stranglehold on the market should not be allowed to happen.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/markets\/6259436\/The-mystery-investor-who-is-turning-the-tin-market-on-its-head.html?utm_source=Telegraph.co.uk&amp;utm_medium=Invest&amp;utm_campaign=Finance0510\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph &#8211; A single investor \u2013 thought to be a hedge fund \u2013 is sitting on thousands of tonnes of tin in warehouses across London. According to traders almost the entire stocks of tin on the London Metals Exchange (LME) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3180,4979,11148,4650],"class_list":["post-12365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-commodity","tag-futures-contracts","tag-hedge-fund","tag-investor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12367,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions\/12367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}