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If you buy and sell catalytic converters daily, war news matters because it can move platinum, palladium and rhodium quickly. These are the value drivers inside catalytic converters, so when PGM markets move, scrap payouts follow. Gold usually gets the

More than 14 countries and over 20 cities around the world are planning to ban the sale of passenger vehicles (primarily cars and buses) powered by fossil fuels such as petrol, liquefied petroleum gas and diesel to varying degrees by

The release of the Tesla Singapore sales portal has sparked a topic of conversation around Electric Vehicles (EV). Singapore has announced the phasing out of Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles in favour of EV’s in an effort to tackle climate

There has been a recent spike in catalytic converter theft around the world. Catalytic converter is an emission control device is found in both diesel and gasoline vehicles and contains Platinum (Pt), Palladium (Pd) and Rhodium (Rh). Given the asking price

Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel, resumed some of its critical operations earlier this month after undergoing repair works to improve the safety of its facilities. The 86-year-old Nornickel boasts a whopping 41% share of world’s palladium mining production at 2,868,000 troy ounces. This figure

Today, we consider the investment case for the precious metal, platinum. I’ve identified platinum as “cheap” on these pages before and that is an adjective that still applies. In fact, now it is “even cheaper”. So should we be buying,

Sales of plug-in electric vehicles in China were almost four times those in the U.S. last year, and the gap is expected to widen this year. The world’s largest car market is engineering a massive shift over the next two

The platinum market is expected to be broadly balanced over the year with a deficit of 65 000 oz forecast for this year. Above ground stocks are expected to end the year at 1.89-million ounces, which is a 3% decline

Palladium prices rose to a two-year high in April, making it the biggest gainer among precious metals. Last month we outlined some of the factors contributing to the palladium price rise: a growing auto sector; a strong South African currency; a

Mean reversion is one of the most powerful mathematical forces in the universe. (The “mean” is just another word for the “average”.) In mean reversion, extreme or random events may take you one way – but then they usually revert