{"id":192764,"date":"2025-10-11T12:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192764\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:27:07","slug":"silver-squeeze-evokes-hunt-brothers-as-banks-rush-bars-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192764\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Squeeze Evokes Hunt Brothers as Banks Rush Bars to London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The London silver market has been thrown into turmoil by a massive short squeeze, driving prices above $50 an ounce for only the second time in history and stirring memories of the billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2014-10-23\/hunt-s-death-revives-memory-of-fortune-lost-on-silver-bet\" title=\"Hunt\u2019s Death Revives Memory of Billions Lost on Silver Wager (1)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Hunt brothers\u2019 notorious attempt<\/a> to corner the market in 1980.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Benchmark prices in London have soared to near-unprecedented levels over New York. Traders described a market where liquidity has almost entirely dried up, leaving anyone short spot silver struggling to source metal and forced to pay crippling borrowing costs to roll their positions to a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The London silver market has been thrown into turmoil by a massive short squeeze, driving prices above $50&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[84,82434,71265,84394,80,6232,308,73341,5290,388,467,394,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-192764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-cargo","tag-generic-1st-gc-future","tag-generic-1st-si-future","tag-government","tag-greenland","tag-india","tag-investment-management","tag-logistics","tag-london","tag-markets","tag-new-york","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}