That “highlighted a generally supportive backdrop to palladium demand, exacerbated by ongoing concerns that output from top producers Russia and South Africa may be under threat,” Jonathan Butler, a precious metals strategist at Mitsubishi Corp., told Bloomberg. “We could see a bit of profit taking from here, but the $700 level seems to have been recaptured convincingly.”
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Further supporting the rally on Wednesday after a decline over the past week, short traders were caught off guard and were forced to cover their bets or buyback shares.
“(Commodity) prices today are being supported by a combination of short covering and a weak dollar. Many people were a few positions short and you saw a lot of trying to cover that,” Marex Spectron’s head of precious metals David Govett told Reuters.
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