Johnson Matthey and Bloomberg announce PGM Market Report agreement

Johnson Matthey today announces that its new PGM Market Report is now available on the Bloomberg Professional service, a leading financial information system used by more than 320,000 global subscribers

Produced by Johnson Matthey's dedicated global team of platinum group metal market analysts, the PGM Market Report will provide detailed data, analysis and commentary on the platinum group metal markets. This will include estimates of supply by country and demand by application for platinum, palladium and rhodium, and demand figures for ruthenium and iridium, detailed by application.

Figures will include a five year history, as well as our forecast for the current year. Information will be updated on a six monthly basis in May and November.

The PGM Market Report and Johnson Matthey's historical data sets and forecast information will be available for purchase by typing DATA>GO on the Bloomberg Professional service.

A set of headline data will be available at no additional cost for subscribers to the Bloomberg Professional service, and via Bloomberg Industries (BI), a portal that provides interactive, continuously updated industry research and data for more than 100 industries globally. Bloomberg is first to offer its subscribers access to the new PGM report and data.

The set of headline data will also be posted on www.platinum.matthey.com.