The Guangzhou Futures Exchange (GFEX) said on Tuesday that it plans to launch China’s first platinum and palladium futures contracts to offer a domestic price hedging mechanism.
The GFEX will be the first exchange to allow delivery against its contracts of platinum and palladium in a form used by the main consumers, automakers and other industrial sectors. Its contracts may also support platinum investment demand in the world’s second-largest economy.
(Reporting by Amy Lv in Shanghai and Polina Devitt in London; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)