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In a fitting end to the year as a whole, gold finished higher for the third week running, ending up by $8 (0.4%), while silver ended the week lower by 44 cents (1.8%). It was the second highest weekly close...

It seems to me that the forces at play in silver, both working for and against sharply higher prices, show no signs of letting up. However, common sense and logic dictate that such diametrically-opposed forces point to an eventual end...

For a second week, gold and silver prices rose, with gold up by $31 (1.5%) and with silver ending higher by “only” 32 cents (1.3%), given its selloff yesterday after scoring fresh one-month price highs earlier in the day. As...

Although I had been following up regularly with the staffer in my local congressman’s office to see if any response had been received  from either the Securities & Exchange Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to my Nov 13...

Gold and silver finished higher for the week, gold by $13 (0.6%) and silver up by 85 cents (3.6%), after last week’s price blast to the downside. As a result of silver’s relative outperformance, the silver/gold price ratio tightened in...

The two markets in question are the wholesale and retail silver markets, where it is “the best of times and the worst of times….it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair”, to borrow a quote from...