Silver Headlines

Biggest Discount Since 2008 Opens Up in $16 Billion Silver ETF (Bloomberg)

Silver’s wild ride this week is driving the steepest discount since 2008 in the world’s biggest ETF tracking the metal. BlackRock Inc.’s $16.2 billion iShares Silver Trust exchange-traded fund, ticker SLV, plunged 14% on Tuesday alongside spot prices. However, the ETF tracks the London Bullion Market Association’s silver price -- which is calculated once a day at an auction and was little changed. The result was a more than 11% discount between SLV and its underlying holdings as the…

Silver dives over 13%, biggest daily decline since Oct. 2008, as equities surge (Reuters)

  * Gold on track for worst day since June 2013 * Silver plunges 13.8%, biggest daily decline since Oct. 2008 * U.S. PPI rebounded more than expected in July * Gold is down over $100 since Monday’s close https://www.reuters.com/article/global-precious/precious-gold-crashes-over-4-silver-dives-as-equities-back-in-vogue-idUSL4N2FD3IT

Silver Crashes Most Since Lehman Bankruptcy (zerohedge)

  https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/silver-crashes-most-lehman-bankruptcy

Silver vs. Gold: How the Two Metals Compare as Investments (WSJ)

So far this year, investors in gold and silver have made out like bandits, especially when you compare the returns of the world’s two best-known precious metals with those of stocks.

Silver Loses Shine in Top Buyer (India) as Prices Rocket to Record High (Bloomberg)

Imports by India declined 47% during Jan.-June: Metals Focus Benchmark futures in India have rallied more than 60% Silver consumption in India is set to halve in 2020 as buyers, mainly from rural areas, skip purchases amid surging prices and a weak economy. Imports by the world’s biggest consumer may tumble by as much as 50% this year from about 6,000 tons in 2019, according to Chirag Sheth, a consultant at London-based Metals Focus Ltd. Imports were down by nearly…

The Big 8 Are Still Mega-Short Silver and Gold

JPMorgan is out of its short positions in both silver and gold -- and may be in platinum and palladium as well, but there's no way to know that.

$50 Silver? BofA Raises Metal Price Targets

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Silver rises to more than 7-year high (Reuters)

Silver prices also jumped 4.2% to $27.10, the highest since April 2013. Silver, which is both a safe-haven asset and widely used in industry, has risen over 51% this year, outperforming even gold. https://www.reuters.com/article/global-precious/precious-gold-bursts-through-2000-oz-barrier-to-new-record-idUSL8N2F7322

Silver outpaces other global assets in best month since 1979 (FT)

“The pace of buying has been incredible across the silver products, whereas you’d expect that strength in gold,” said Suki Cooper, an analyst at Standard Chartered in New York. “But once investors feel they are priced out of gold they may turn to silver, or they may look at the gold/silver ratio and feel it is undervalued.”  Holdings in silver-backed exchange traded funds had risen to a record 8,445 tonnes this year, Ms Cooper added, almost double the previous record in 2009.