extract from another site18 Oct 2021 19:07
"So even as the palladium price has dropped almost $1,000 per ounce, shareholders and investors should see this as opportunity to invest rather than a problem. And the simple reason for the price decrease is that auto manufacturers have had to cut back production because they cannot get enough chips to build the number of cars they would like to. And most palladium goes into cars. As a result, they bought less palladium and the price sank".