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Gold prices fell modestly for the week, down $10 (0.5%) and still holding above $2000; while silver prices got crushed by $1.80 (6.9%), to a seven- week low. As a result of silver’s extreme relative underperformance, the silver/gold price ratio...

A curious thing has developed over the past twenty years or so, regarding gold and silver. It seems to me that since the turn of the century, the attention on precious metals has evolved from a decidedly gold-centric focus to...

A sharp Friday selloff succeeded in trimming some of the week’s gains in gold and silver prices, but prices still ended higher, with gold up by $26 (1.3%) and silver up by a sharper 63 cents (2.5%). As a result...

Gold prices finished slightly higher for the week, up by $5 (0.3%), while silver ended 7 cents (0.3%) lower. As a result, the silver/gold price ratio widened slightly, by a fraction to 79.7 to 1. (When adjusted for the switch...

The big news is last night’s release of the new short report on stocks, which indicated a massive 25 million share reduction in the short position on SLV, the big silver ETF, as of the close of business April 14....

For the second week running, a sharp Friday selloff resulted in lower gold prices on the week, this time by $24 (1.2%). The same Friday selloff succeeded in pushing silver lower for the first time in six weeks, with prices...