Platinum
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- Category: Commodity
Platinum was a part of Native American tradition earlier than Columbus arrived within the New World. In 1557, Julius Caesar Scaliger writes about the metal, referencing the platinum mines of Panama and Mexico and the problem of melting the metallic based mostly on the know-how of the times. Europeans realized early on that platinum was extra valuable than gold. King Louis XV of France acknowledged platinum's rarity and declared it the only metallic fit for a king.
Through the nineteenth century, platinum was very tough to metalsmith. It was often mixed with iridium with a purpose to mildew it into jewelry. Across the flip of the 20th century, Russia made a number of significant platinum deposit discoveries and started to supply ninety% of the world's platinum. On the similar time, advances in metalsmithing made using pure platinum extra common.
Platinum's metallic properties make it highly attractive in quite a lot of business and industrial applications. It has a high resistance to temperature and doesn't oxidize in air, though it is corroded by halogens, cyanides, sulfur and caustic alkalis. What's more, it's also non-reactive to chemical assault and has excellent electrical properties.
1. Futures: $25 per troy ounce ($1,250 per contract)
2. There isn't any maximum each day commodity buying and selling restrict in the course of the present supply month and the three enterprise days previous it.
3. If the settlement value reaches the maximum day by day limit for 2 consecutive days in any of the outer months, the expanded each day restrict schedule will go into effect.
4. The utmost expanded daily limit is $50 per troy ounce ($2,500 per contract)