Another Promising Sign for Lithium: Rising Leveraged Bets on Miners

Investors have been buying up shares of Chinese mainland-listed lithium miners with borrowed money over the past two weeks, with Tianqi Lithium Corp. (002466.SZ) topping a recent list of domestic stocks that have received the highest amount of leveraged bets.

Margin traders’ growing interest in mainland-listed lithium miners reflects expectations for strong demand for the raw material for electric-vehicle (EV) batteries, just as some local Chinese governments get back to offering subsidies for EVs.