Kitco Metals of Canada, a popular precious metals trader, recently launched a campaign to attract more interest in physical rhodium as an investment vehicle in the precious metals markets. If you invest in precious metals you're going to want to read all of the fine print before jumping in and purchasing Kitco's new “rhodium sponge” product.

The current spread between the buy and sell price for rhodium, which is advertised on Kitco's web site, is about US$300. This huge spread makes it the precious metal with the highest buy to sell spread in all of Kitco's precious metal offerings. With a US$300 spread between the buy and sell price it's likely that you're going to have to wait awhile for the metal's price to move enough before you can make any money.

Lately, with the economy in constant turmoil, the price of gold and silver is a lot more active than usual. There are huge, daily swings up and down in the value of these precious metals. For those who are invested in silver and gold bullion these large price swings are probably hard to watch.

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