The news wires are all a buzz with the most recent scoop of Wall Street: JPMorgan’s investigation by the Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over allegations of manipulating the silver market on the London Bullion Exchange and NYMEX.
The European (and in fact, the global) financial crisis is far from over and will continue to influence the precious metals (and industrial sector) for some time to come. Whether silver will react positively or negatively over the long-run still remains to be seen.
When ETFs were first introduced to the marketplace a decade ago, they opened up a whole new world of investment opportunities. Now New York-based Global X Funds has extended those opportunities even further. Tuesday, Global X launched the world’s first silver miner exchange-traded fund, Global X Silver Miners ETF (SIL).
Precious metals prices returned from Easter Break with a bang. Despite the dollar remaining in the green Wednesday, silver took direction from the industrial side of the market and, like gold, rose along with platinum, palladium and copper prices.
When precious metals prices got a boost from the dollar’s losses Monday, silver shot up nearly 3 percent while gold barely moved up less than a quarter percent from Friday. Silver’s industrial side is partly responsible for its continued outperformance of gold in the precious metals market.
Both Greece’s debt crisis and India’s inflation concerns are dollar supportive, putting downward pressure on silver prices.
Silver is showing it’s still very much tied to gold, tracking the yellow metal down on price chopping news out of China, the oil trade and the currency markets.
By Melissa Pistilli-Exclusive to Silver Investing News Silver and gold prices rose slightly in early trading Monday, but those gains were quickly erased as a rebounding dollar forced gold down below the psychological support level of $1,100 an ounce to close at $1,092.30 in New York, and silver dropped below the crucial $17.00 level to [...]
By Melissa Pistilli-Exclusive to Silver Investing News Precious metals prices have suffered deep blows in recent trading days as investors fret over the direction of possible interest rate moves and the dollar. “We are seeing liquidation from a lot of fast money that had jumped into gold on the premise that they want to diversify [...]
By Melissa Pistilli-Exclusive to Silver Investing News Precious metals prices suffered a slight setback Friday on news that two Dubai state-owned firms have had to delay billions of dollars in debt payments, which sent equities and commodities markets reeling. Investors sold off silver and gold to cover their losses. Silver hit a two-week low of [...]
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