Gold traded with a mild negative bias through the mid-European session on Wednesday, albeit has managed to reverse an early dip to $1193 area.

September 12, 2018

London (Sept 12)  MetalMiner’s Global Precious Monthly Metals Index (MMI) - tracking a basket of platinum, palladium, gold and silver prices in several geographies across the globe - continues its trek downward.

The Global Precious MMI clocked a value of 81 for its September 2018 reading, down 1.2% from 82 last month - and reaching a low not seen since January 2017.

The former dropped below $800/ounce for bars, hitting $777/ounce to start the month. That ensured one of the largest chasms in the platinum-palladium price spread of late, as the U.S. palladium bar price surged back up to $979/ounce after two straight months of steady declines.

The gold price, meanwhile, also dropped to begin September, down to another historic low. Its bullion price in the U.S. slid under $1,200/ounce for the first time since January 2017, clocking in at $1,191/ounce.

More on Platinum Outlook

Oversupply concerns have been a key driver of dropping platinum prices since the beginning of this year.

The World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) foresees another year of oversupply, as indicated in its latest quarterly report, according to Reuters.

WPIC expects that 2018 will end with the global platinum market in a 295,000-ounce oversupply situation. Supply of and demand for the metal have fallen 2%, according to the group.

Investment demand continues to fall on the back of the aforementioned trends, but that looks to have reversed course. Ultimately, 2018’s investor demand for platinum should end up “only slightly lower,” Reuters quoted Trevor Raymond, WPIC’s director of research, as saying.

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