Retail Platinum investment to partially recover by 30%
Platinum investment demand likely to decline by 2% YoY According to the Platinum Quarterly, Q1 2025; published by World Platinum Investment Council [WPIC] said about the Platinum Investment demand Outlook for the 2025. The report said, total investment is set to decline by 2% year-on-year to 688 koz in 2025. Retail investment is forecast to partially recover by 30% (+58 koz), albeit to just a two-year high of 252 koz. This reflects further gains in China and a modest recovery in North America. By contrast, Japan is set for a second year of net disinvestment. North American demand is forecast to regain some of the ground lost in 2024, with a forecast 18% lift this year. This reflects a relatively decent start to the year from those investors attracted by the record discount to gold, in spite of the overall weakness in North American precious metals retail investment. Even so, this forecast is subject to considerable uncertainty as mos...