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The London silver market is in rare disarray. A powerful short squeeze has driven benchmark prices above $50 an ounce, marking only the second time in history the metal has reached that level. For veterans, the surge recalls the infamous Hunt brothers’ attempt to corner silver in 1980.

According to Bloomberg, liquidity in London has nearly vanished. Traders short the physical market are struggling to find metal, paying steep borrowing costs to maintain positions. “There is no liquidity available currently,” said Anant Jatia, Chief Investment Officer at Greenland Investment Management. “What we are seeing in silver is entirely unprecedented.”

“There is no liquidity available currently.”
— Anant Jatia, Greenland Investment Management

For more than a century, London has served as the hub of global precious metals trade, where benchmark prices are set and vaulted bars circulate among a tight network of banks. Secure trucks once handled those flows daily. Today, cargo planes are stepping in. Traders are reportedly booking transatlantic freight to move bulky silver bars from New York to London, paying rates typically reserved for gold to capitalize on the premium in the London spot market, writes Scottsdale Mint.

The immediate catalyst is a surge in investment demand for gold and silver as Western debt concerns and currency fears intensify. The tension has been amplified by a U.S. budget impasse and fears of devaluation. Yet silver’s shortage is also structural. Indian demand spiked abruptly during Golden Week, coinciding with dwindling inventories in London and concern over potential U.S. tariffs on the metal, added Scottsdale.

'Never Seen Anything Like It': Amid Historic Squeeze, Silver Traders Rush Bars To London; Goldman Still Favors Gold, writes Zero Hedge.

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