🚀 Insider time: silver is more expensive than gold
Silver is up more than 25% since the beginning of the year and is solidly outperforming other commodities in terms of growth and market performance. This glamorous precious metal is benefiting from robust financial and industrial demand. ⠀ The market is heading into the fourth year of a chronic shortage of industrial silver, which is a key component for the high-tech industry, such as solar panels. Inventories tracked by the LBMA fell to their lowest level on record in April, while volumes on exchanges in New York and Shanghai are near seasonal lows. ⠀ The two major metals moved in tandem, with gold hitting record highs amid central bank buying, retail interest in China and rising expectations of a US interest rate cut. ⠀ Silver joined the current rally rather late and remains undervalued: it now takes about 80 ounces of silver to buy 1 ounce of gold, although the average over the past 20 years has not risen above 68 ounces. Despite little investor interest in silver-backed exchange-traded funds, physical sales rose, including at Singapore dealer Silver Bullion Pte. ⠀ The sacred level of $30 has already been passed, although a technical correction to the $29.50-30.50 zone is very likely, most likely synchronously with gold. There are no fundamental reasons for a deeper decline. The first upward target is in the zone of $32.30-32.80, higher is unlikely. ⠀












