I read that there’s actually a surplus of rhodium. It appears that the big boys are stacking rhodium in excess of business use demand. I don’t buy the pallladium shortage either, most likely it is Russia holding back supplies.
^ Wow! "ATH" meaning? Regardless of its price: how can the small man sell it? Obviously, Rhodium is for the sophisticated, much richer investor who has the means to sell it (find a dealer), but I guess it's difficult in the US, Germany, UK, Australia as well.
Dealers will hit you when they buy, cause not easy to sell cause it attracts GST.. only Au & Ag do not have GST on 999+ finness
ATH = all time high. The rate of change in long term graph suggests a top is coming. Live price is now 9400 USD https://www.moneymetals.com/precious-metals-charts/rhodium-price As for selling, “what a problem to have”. I expect there is a big spread between buy and sell in Australia. There was last time I looked years ago. However, on the bright side, it might be same price as taking it to Kitco in the USA and selling direct. Are you sure this attract GST? The GST exemption list covers “certain” metals other than gold and silver, so long as they are in investment form. (You probably are right...but the ruling would have to be confirmed as rhodium clearly is a precious metal, clearly trades as such and is rarer than gold, silver, platinum) https://www.abf.gov.au/importing-ex...ting-goods/gst-and-other-taxes/gst-exemptions Please Note - platinum also seems to qualify as GST exempt, not just Au and At GST-free supply Under section 38-385 of the GST Act, the first supply of precious metals after its refining by the refiner, or on behalf of the supplier will only be GST-free if the recipient of the supply is a dealer in precious metals. As defined under section 195-1 of the GST Act, precious metal means: (a) gold (in an investment form) of at least 99.5% fineness; or (b) silver (in an investment form) of at least 99.9% fineness; or (c) platinum (in an investment form) of at least 99% fineness; or (d) any other substance (in an investment form) specified in the regulations of a particular fineness specified in the regulations of at least 99.5% fineness.
When you say it isn’t easy to sell, you might be right but also I see KJC has not had half ounce stock on their website for some time and I haven’t seen 5 ounce there even listed for a while. I’d also be thinking of a global market for this one. From what I have read, emissions standards are greatly responsible for the demand, more recently in China. However, India’s emissions scheme relevant to rhodium is coming up soon (deadline 31 March 2020) https://www.embitel.com/blog/embedd...e-6-and-bs-vi-norms-in-automotive-electronics “India is a country with 10 of the most populated cities of the world and this is one distinction we should not be proud of. Vehicular emission is a major contributor to the worsening air quality of Indian cities. Emission of NOx, SO2, CO2 and particulate matter is taking a toll on people’s health. In cities like Delhi, the PM2.5 level is more than 6 times the prescribed levels by WHO. In October 2016, India signed the Conference of Protocol also known as the Paris Climate Agreement. Being a signatory to the agreement, India is obligated to bring down the carbon footprint by 33-55% from the levels recorded in 2005 in the next 12 years. This warranted the need for a stricter norm that could reduce the emissions considerably and put India on track to meet the Paris agreement goals. Ideally, BS V would have been rolled out by 2021 and BS VI in 2024 but leapfrog to Bharat Stage VI norms by 2020 had to be planned because of the carbon footprint obligations.” “ NOx emission will come down by approximately 25% for the petrol engine and 68% for the diesel engines. The PM emission will see a substantial decrease of 80% in Diesel engines” I’ve read the market share for diesel vehicles will drop from about 45% to 33%
Wow, this thread dated 2016. Wished I had known pm in 2016 or 2017. But by the time I saw rhodium in 2018, it was well over $2k. I'll have to settle for pt now.
Wow looks like it will hit $10k by the end of the week. Using the Rhodium indicator, i expect a general market crash soon.
Depending on what you read, live price is now USD 10250 or 9895 https://www.metalsdaily.com/live-prices/pgms/ Given that Bharat 6 is coming in for India in April, you have to wonder if this is preemptive. Maybe with some speculative froth driving it. It would be nice to look at who is buying.
At that price, substitutes will come into play in the medium term . Unlike gold rhodium is mostly industrial, so only processes that must use it will keep doing so long term. Though in industrial usage a straight swap would be rare (ie nothing changes but the substitute) so to retrofit another process into production will take time
Wasn't rhodium a semi popular metal here a years back, i recall a few threads, when it was cheaper than gold
Do you know that Pt miners actually make more revenue from Rh than pt and pd? I'm talking about "revenue", not "margin". For every 1 oz of "platinum ore" mined and refined into pgm, the worth of pt in it is just 22% of the total pgm. The "by products" is worth more than 3 times of the metal mined. I just found out about this recently.