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Key Factors Impacting Palladium in 2025: 1. Automotive Industry Transformation and 2. Policy and Geopolitical Factors

China’s Haitian Water Group, which is branching into the solar sector, will pay German tech giant Heraeus CNY502 million (USD68.8 million) in cash for its solar silver paste operations and factories in China and Singapore, which produce a key raw material that forms the metal electrodes in photovoltaic cells.

Gold is heading for one of its biggest annual gains this century, with a 27% advance that’s been fueled by US monetary easing, sustained geopolitical risks, and a wave of purchases by central banks.

Many analysts expect gold prices to hit $3,000 an ounce next year, but the rally is not expected to materialize until the second half of 2025. At the same time, with prices consolidating around $2,650 an ounce, next year's target would represent roughly a 13% gain compared to this year's nearly 30% rally.

Sibanye-Stillwater said it entered into a $500 million agreement with mining royalty company Franco-Nevada for the long-term supply of gold and platinum from three of its mines in South Africa.

Silver could outperform gold again next year, spot price forecast to hit $40/oz in 2025 – Heraeus

PGMs are crucial for hydrogen-energy-enabled decarbonisation, especially when employed in proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology used in electrolysers and fuel cells, reports London-based global authority on platinum investment, the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC).

In his latest note, Carsten Fritsch, a precious metals analyst at Commerzbank, said he remains bullish on silver for 2025, as the metal looks to end the current year in lockstep with gold. The current gold/silver ratio is trading around 85 points, roughly where it started the year, even as prices have risen 30% in 2024.

New platinum-nickel core-shell catalyst shows stability for oxygen reduction reactions
"We can enhance the performance of platinum by tuning its surface structure, which helps it react more efficiently," says Di Zhang, a specially appointed assistant professor at Tohoku University's Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR).

The average grain size of a typical bulk metal is about 10 μm at the smallest. In this new technology, the average crystal grain size can be controlled in the nano scale. As a result, the developed pure platinum, with 99.9% or higher purity, has 10 times the hardness and 4 times the strength of typical platinum materials.