The Economist: THE story sounded more appropriate for a spy novel than a sober financial broadsheet: rogue copper trader goes missing, as the Chinese government denies he ever worked for it. Yet in this case, truth has turned out to be at least as strange as fiction. Liu Qibing, a trader for China’s State Reserve Bureau (SRB), which accumulates stockpiles of commodities for the nation’s needs, has disappeared, leaving his employers on the hook for massive short positions in copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME). Click here to continue reading.

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