The price of Platinum continued to soar at the start of the new trading week and broke through the $1,200 per troy ounce mark for the first time in four years on Monday, Commerzbank's commodity analyst Carsten Fritsch notes.
"The price is currently trading even higher at around $1,270. The Platinum price is up 27% since 20 May and 40% since the beginning of the year. This means that the Platinum price has risen even more than the gold price, which has ‘only’ risen by 27% since the beginning of the year."
"At the beginning of April, shortly after the announcement of reciprocal tariffs by US President Trump, Platinum briefly fell back to $900. The price explosion came largely as a surprise. The physical Platinum market has been tight for years without the price being able to benefit from this, apart from brief price spikes that never lasted long."