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Category Archives: Silver.com News

February 1st Mid-Week Market Update

Posted on February 01, 2017 by Chelsea Mies in Silver.com News

Market Overview: Gold and silver are seeing some slight selling pressure today as risk appetite is on the rise and as some earnings reports have stock investors encouraged. Markets are also cheering on some recent economic data as they await the results of tday’s latest FOMC meeting. The Trump administration and its recent immigration ban…

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January 27th Weekly Silver Market Update

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Kyle Wanchalk in Silver.com News

Precious metals spent most of this week trending downward as stocks across the world found renwed strength. Adding to the pressure facing metals was a Dollar that began picking up steam towards week’s end. All told, the week did not present metals with much support at all. After seeing the last 5 days unfold, the…

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January 25th Mid-Week Market Update

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Chelsea Mies in Silver.com News

Market Overview: Gold and silver are seeing some selling pressure in early trade today as global stock markets continue their ascent. Stocks are once again in fresh all-time high territory, and the Dow looks set to finally hot the elusive 20,000 level. The Trump administration has been active this week, signing orders to move forward…

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January 20th Weekly Silver Market Update

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Kyle Wanchalk in Silver.com News

Precious metals began the week in impressive fashion, but things quickly turned around as the Dollar and stocks picked up steam. A major theme of the week was the large quantity of economic data dealt from the United States. After seeing how precious metals performed on the week, it is clear to see that the…

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January 18th Mid-Week Market Update

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Chelsea Mies in Silver.com News

Market Overview: In mixed action this morning, gold is slightly lower while silver is moving slightly higher. These precious metals markets are possibly just taking a breather today following yesterday’s gains. The demand for perceived safe haven assets such as gold and silver may continue to rise as the new Presidential administration gets ready to…

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January 13th Weekly Silver Market Update

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Kyle Wanchalk in Silver.com News

Precious metals ended the week having made gains, making this the second consecutive week where that has happened. Still, the gains made by metals were not overly significant. Compared to last week, this one was fairly light as far as economic data is concerned. What is largely considered to be the biggest news story of…

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January 11th Mid-Week Market Update

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Chelsea Mies in Silver.com News

Market Overview: Both gold and silver are under some moderate selling pressure in early trade today as the dollar surges higher. The gold market has been moving higher since bottoming out last month, and some short-term traders may simply be taking some profits today, as well. Some investors may also be squaring positions ahead of…

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January 6th Weekly Silver Market Update

Posted on January 06, 2017 by Kyle Wanchalk in Silver.com News

The first week of 2017 trading, though fragmented, ended up being a wholly positive one for both gold and silver. As expected, there was a good bit of economic data dealt this week, most of which was from the United States. Apart from this, a major theme across the global marketplace was a renewed interest…

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January 4th Mid-Week Market Update

Posted on January 04, 2017 by Chelsea Mies in Silver.com News

Market Overview: Investors are getting back into the swing of things following the holidays. To begin the new trading year, investors appear happy to keep buying stocks, and thus far there has not been any signs of the type of New Year selloff that was seen last January. The recent sense of economic optimism may…

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December 30th Weekly Silver Market Update

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Kyle Wanchalk in Silver.com News

Even though it was mostly unexpected, precious metals managed to turn this holiday week of trading into one of decent gains. From the outset of the week, both gold and silver began moving upward and really did not look back. Helping facilitate these gains was the fact that crude oil prices remained elevated while the…

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December 28th Mid-Week Market Update

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Chelsea Mies in Silver.com News

Market Overview: Gold and silver are both moving slightly lower today in light holiday trade. With many traders and investors on vacation for the holidays, the precious metals markets may be at or near the levels with which they end the year. Although the gold and silver markets have seen some significant declines in recent…

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December 23rd Weekly Silver Market Update

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Kyle Wanchalk in Silver.com News

Precious metals did not really perform well for much of any of this past week. The fact of the matter is that global markets are in a very bearish state for metals right now, and so long as that persists it is going to be nearly impossible for precious metals to make any substantial, large…

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December 21st Mid-Week Market Update

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Chelsea Mies in Silver.com News

Market Overview: Both gold and silver are moving slightly higher today in light trade. Markets in general are not seeing much movement today as investors turn their attention to the upcoming Christmas Holiday. Trade may now remain light until the end of the year as investors also await Donald Trump assuming office next month. Although…

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December 16th Weekly Silver Market Update

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Kyle Wanchalk in Silver.com News

Despite mostly holding their own in the first half of the week, precious metals took a dive to wrap things up. As you might have guessed, the biggest story of the week came in the form of the 2-day FOMC meeting, which wrapped up with a post-meeting statement Wednesday afternoon. There were a few noteworthy…

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December 14th Mid-Week Market Update

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Chelsea Mies in Silver.com News

Market Overview: Markets had been largely in a holding pattern for the first part of the day today, as investors anxiously awaited the FOMC meeting. As expected, the central bank hiked interest rates by a quarter point. Investors will now turn their attention to the central bank’s assessment on economic conditions and any discussion of…

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December 9th Weekly Silver Market Update

Posted on December 09, 2016 by Kyle Wanchalk in Silver.com News

Precious metals did not exactly go on a tear this week, but they prevented themselves from falling too much further. There was a good bit of economic data dealt, but in addition to that the marketplace was focused on the European Central Bank policy meeting, which was held on Thursday. As you could have probably…

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December 7th Mid-Week Market Update

Posted on December 07, 2016 by Chelsea Mies in Silver.com News

Market Overview: Both silver and gold are seeing strong buying interest today as interest rates ease and the dollar declines. These precious metals are likely seeing some short covering and position squaring ahead of global central bank meetings this month including the U.S. Federal Reserve and the ECB. It is widely expected that the Fed…

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December 2nd Weekly Silver Market Update

Posted on December 02, 2016 by Kyle Wanchalk in Silver.com News

Precious metals finished November and kicked off December rather poorly. The week started off slow, but thanks to the release of a few pieces of crucial economic data things quickly picked up. In addition to the aforementioned data, there was also a rather significant development as far as the global crude oil market is concerned….

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November 30th Weekly Silver Market Update

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Chelsea Mies in Silver.com News

Market Overview: Both silver and gold are moving lower in early action today as risk appetite continues to remain strong. Investors are also awaiting the outcome of today’s OPEC meeting at which an agreement on a production cut may potentially be reached. Hopes for a deal have driven crude oil back towards the $50 per…

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November 25th Weekly Silver Market Update

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Kyle Wanchalk in Silver.com News

Precious metals have now lost for the last 3 weeks, making November a month that most investors would probably like to quickly forget. This week was hyphenated thanks to the Thanksgiving Day holiday being celebrate in the US on Thursday, but there was still plenty to talk about as far as investors are concerned. Now…

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November 18th Weekly Silver Market Update

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Kyle Wanchalk in Silver.com News

Precious metals pulled back a little bit further on Friday to solidify a losing week. When all was said and done, gold backtracked by about 2 dollars while silver ended up dropping about ten cents. Platinum and palladium both lost on the day, with both metals conceding little more than ten dollars. Bullard Backs December…

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November 16th Mid-Week Market Update

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Chelsea Mies in Silver.com News

Market Overview: The precious metals market is mixed this morning, as gold inches higher while silver inches lower. Both silver and gold are still trying to find some more solid footing following the recent (and surprising to many) selling in the aftermath of a Trump victory. Overall risk appetite remains high, as investors appear to…

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November 11th Weekly Silver Market Update

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Kyle Wanchalk in Silver.com News

Gold and silver are going to finish what was truly an eventful week posting poor results. Naturally, the main topic of discussion heading into this week and still today was the US presidential election. Unless you have been living under a rock you know full well that Donald Trump surprised everyone and laid claim to…

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November 9th Mid-Week Market Update

Posted on November 09, 2016 by Chelsea Mies in Silver.com News

Market Overview: Sheer craziness may be the best way to describe market action since the Presidential election results starting trickling in last night. As it became more and more apparent that Republican Presidential nominee and billionaire businessman Donald Trump might actually win the Presidency, stock index futures began falling through the floor while gold and…

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November 4th Weekly Silver Market Update

Posted on November 04, 2016 by Kyle Wanchalk in Silver.com News

Gold and silver made strides forward on Friday thanks to some weaker than expected US employment data. On the whole, this past 5-day trading session worked out decently well for precious metals, which benefited from a slew of US economic data as well as election jitters ahead of next week’s US presidential election. Friday was,…

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