{"id":164088,"date":"2020-01-29T12:45:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=164088"},"modified":"2020-01-29T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T15:55:18","slug":"new-cautions-on-rhodium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2020\/01\/new-cautions-on-rhodium\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cautions on Rhodium"},"content":{"rendered":"
January 29, 2020<\/div>
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By Money Metals News Service<\/b><\/p>\n

Rhodium prices have surged along with palladium. Price discovery in rhodium works differently than for other precious metals, so investors need to be especially careful.<\/p>\n

The \u201cspot\u201d price for rhodium<\/a> surged to $9,985 last week. However, that price does not come from a market where regular trading produces live, real-time prices.<\/p>\n

Rather, the rhodium ask price is simply declared by major refiners. Johnson Matthey is one of the firms which publishes a price.<\/p>\n

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Rhodium 2-Year Chart<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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The price is generally updated twice per day during the trading week.<\/p>\n

Lately the published ask prices jumped dramatically higher. Bid prices, on the other hand, have not kept up.<\/p>

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The bid\/ask spread in the thinly traded rhodium market has always been wider than in other precious metals, but it\u2019s wider now than ever. Current bids are roughly $2,000 below the published ask price.<\/p>\n

If there really are industrial users paying the refiners\u2019 $10,000 ask price for physical rhodium, it is quite an opportunity for arbitrage. Traders could theoretically purchase bars at the bid price and sell them at a very healthy profit to anyone paying the ask price.<\/p>\n

That isn\u2019t happening, at least as far as we can determine. Someone may have published a $10,000 ask price, but we can\u2019t locate anyone actually paying that sum for rhodium bars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite what the surging \u201cspot\u201d price for rhodium may imply, the bid for physical rhodium remains weak.<\/p>\n

Money Metals has taken dozens of calls per day from sellers trying to cash in on spot prices near $10,000\/oz. Many are disappointed to find actual prices are far lower which is a result of wholesalers dropping their bids. We believe one major rhodium buyer will cease further buying soon.<\/p>\n

The rhodium market is tiny and illiquid. Price discrepancies like the one we are seeing are common. Our advice to clients would be not to put much credence in the \u201cspot\u201d price they see published until the spread is much tighter than it currently is.<\/p>\n

The true price of rhodium, like all assets, is based on what real buyers are actually paying. That is currently closer to $8,000\/oz, not $10,000\/oz.<\/p>\n

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The Money Metals News Service provides market news and crisp commentary for investors following the precious metals markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Money Metals News Service Rhodium prices have surged along with palladium. Price discovery in rhodium works differently than for other precious metals, so investors need to be especially careful. The \u201cspot\u201d price for rhodium surged to $9,985 last week. However, that price does not come from a market where regular trading produces live, real-time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164093,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164088\/revisions\/164093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}