Chinese markets for lithium, a key battery metal, are seeing heightened volatility after investors bid up prices to guard against possible supply disruptions.<\/p>\n
Lithium carbonate traded on the Guangzhou Futures Exchange rose by its daily limit of 8% on Friday, capping a 14% gain for the week. That prompted the bourse to issue a notice<\/a> reining in speculative trades, which helped push futures limit down on Monday. Shares of producers have also jumped, with Tianqi Lithium Corp.<\/a> and Chengxin Lithium Group Co.<\/a> both rallying around 25% this month in Shenzhen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese markets for lithium, a key battery metal, are seeing heightened volatility after investors bid up prices to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,63,26290,99,26289,512,26287,1020,26291,26286,3786,26288,18461,171,13433,26285],"class_list":["post-27033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benchmark-mineral-intelligen","tag-business","tag-chengxin-lithium-group-co-a","tag-china","tag-china-renminbi-spot","tag-cities","tag-climate-changed","tag-cme-group-inc","tag-government","tag-guangzhou","tag-industries","tag-markets","tag-shenzhen","tag-tianqi-lithium-corp-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}