Higher interest rates increase the opportunity cost of holding the non-yielding bullion and boosts the dollar. The dollar index inched 0.1% lower having earlier hit a 20-year peak. Stronger-than-expected platinum shipments to China in the first half of the year spurred shortages elsewhere, as supply declined from mines and recycling, the World Platinum Investment Council said on Monday.
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