Gold has been trading at a premium to platinum recently, which reflects the safe-haven quality of gold and that premium will likely stay as long as the nervousness over global economic situation persists.
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All of this has given gold a sharp premium at the moment, Zarembski said.
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Streible sees palladium as a better value play right now than platinum, citing the premium gold continues to have over platinum.
So there is a good justification for having gold trading at a premium to platinum.
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Historically platinum has had a price premium over gold, but that changed around late September last year when a poor world economic outlook pinched industrial metals like platinum and buyers sought gold for its safe-haven status or its role as an alternative currency.
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The sheer swiftness of gold's decline on Monday meant that investors were willing to pay a premium for put options on gold and silver-backed exchange-traded funds, a centerpiece of his strategy.
Whether or not platinum now holds or extends its re-found premium to the gold price depends on the underlying outlook for growth vs. depression.
Bhar looks for gold to trade at a premium for much of the rest of the year, or longer if there is a recession that lasts for a while.
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Unlike with a futures investment, which is based on the current value of gold, the downside to options is that the investor must pay a premium to the underlying value of the gold to own the option.
Indians bought gold at close to international prices and the havala premium on the dollar disappeared, boosting legal remittances.
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Yet, even at a premium of 29% to the average price of Gold Fields' shares during the past month, Harmony's offer is not a knock-out blow.
For investors, coins are commonly bought from private dealers at a premium of about 1-5% above their underlying gold value.
This acquisition represented a 56.4% premium to the trading day prior to the announcement and illustrates how extremely undervalued gold companies have been.
Consider, gold is no more volatile than other metals yet it carries at least a 20 percent premium over copper, iron ore and coal equities.
So you could even put the switch down to the slow death of that natural deflation built into the Gold Standard (or rather its step-nephew, the Gold Exchange system), starting at the very same time as US stockholders kissed goodbye to earning a premium each year above Treasury yields.
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