Platinum jumps most in 10 weeks on economic rebound hopes

Platinum futures jumped the most in 10 weeks on speculation that a global economic rebound will boost demand for the metal used for pollution-control devices in cars. Gold also rose.

Platinum jumped as much as 3.8% to a two-week high at 8:20 a.m. New York time in the most-active trading of the session. The price will rally to $1,650 an ounce in 2014 as consumption surpasses output, a Bloomberg survey showed. Demand exceeded supply this year by the most since 1999, according to Johnson Matthey Plc.

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  • wmineral's avatar

    I think platinum metals are way underpriced as there are only few sources worldwide and demand is much higher then production. Not much exploration going on => price going up sooner or later. The industry consumption of Pt is going up each year but production not so much…

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