Emergency liquidity: Commodity traders struggle to stay buoyant

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Agri/Soft Commodities, Capital Equipment, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Other, Power, Renewables, Transport

Region:

Middle East & Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe

Aife Howse

Commodities Content Manager

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The recent commodity trader rush for emergency liquidity from relationship lenders to meet margin calls has met with a predictable response - credit lines are still open for the biggest trading credits. But at the smaller end of the market the credit squeeze is getting very tough.