Do Scarce Precious Metals Equate to Safe Harbor Investments? The Case of Platinum and Palladium

Table 1

The sample size and period of London gold price fixing.

Precious metals	Start of data	Daily obs.	Mean	Std. dev.	Skew.	Kurt.	J-Bera
Platinum	July 2, 1992	5,535	0.011	0.607	−0.288	13.834	271456
Palladium	July 2, 1992	5,531	0.018	0.910	0.031	10.749	13841

Note: , , and are significant at 10, 5, and 1% levels.
Source: Quandl website; http://www.quandl.com/.