Sprott to Buy $1.5B of Silver Bullion

The silver price could explode higher in coming months. As the silver and gold price predictably fade ahead of option expiration, JP Morgan’s bullion manipulation scheme could be headed for unprecedented problems, not from the record purchases of gold and silver from the Chinese, Indians or Russians, but from one Canadian billionaire. Canadian-based Eric Sprott Management CEO Eric Sprott filed...

Silver eagle bullion sales in 2011 hit new record

The correction in silver prices has not shaken investor confidence. In fact, bullion investors have stepped up their purchases this year. With just under two months still remaining in 2011, sales of the American Silver Eagle have already surpassed the record level of 2010 with sales of 36,375,500 ounces. If sales of the Silver Eagle for November and December match the levels of 2010, total sales for...

Increasing Demand for Silver by the Solar Energy Industry

http://silverprices.com/blog/?p=132 The US debt crisis and European economic woes has sent the silver trading industry into a turmoil as prices kept on declining through much of August. Traders and investors are grappled with fear since the current crisis could cause a decline in demand for industrial silver. Another interesting point...

COMEX Options Expiration Operational Procedures for the Trading Floor and Clearing Members Effective Thursday, August 25, 2011

TO: Clearing Member Firms Floor Brokers/Floor Clerks FROM: CME Clearing DATE: August 24, 2011 RE: COMEX Options Expiration Operational Procedures for the Trading Floor and Clearing Members Effective Thursday, August 25, 2011 The expiration date for the September 2011 options contract for Copper Option (HX), Gold Option (OG), and Silver Option (SO) is Thursday, August 25, 2011. GENERAL OPERATIONAL...

COMEX Registered Silver Bullion Inventories Fall Sharp 38.5% in Two Weeks – Risk of COMEX Silver Default Remains

Spot gold and silver prices rose slightly again this morning after hitting a one-month high yesterday as equity markets internationally came under selling pressure. The Moody's downgrade of Greece and worryingly poor US economic data again pushed investors to seek the safe haven of bullion. Gold reached new record nominal highs in sterling yesterday (£945.62/oz) as the pound fell on concerns...

Silver Market Update

originally published July 14th, 2011 Yesterday's high volume breakout above its 50-day moving average marked completion of the intermediate basing pattern and the start of the next major uptrend in silver. Everything in now in place for a substantial uptrend to develop in coming months that should take silver comfortably to new highs....

Is The COMEX Manipulating Gold Margins To Mask Silver Supply Deficits?

The COMEX has just dropped the minimum margin requirement for gold contracts to $6,075 from its former $6,751 minimum.  This move does not make economic sense as the price of gold is now within 2% of its all-time high COMEX close. The lower margin requirement also does not make sense when compared to the COMEX margin requirements...

COMEX WAREHOUSES REGISTERED SILVER - Exclusive Interactive Chart

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Throw out certainty when trying to predict silver's future

Throw out certainty when trying to predict silver's futureBy David Morrill Contra Costa TimesPosted: 05/06/2011 02:42:01 PM PDTUpdated: 05/06/2011 05:14:01 PM PDT http://www.contracostatimes.com/business/ci_18010388?nclick_check=1 "Silver will reverse course anytime now." "... "It will go sideways for awhile before going back up." "... "It's just in a correction period, but a year from...

How Volatile is silver going to be ?

Is the volatility in weekly silver price movements reaching a crescendo? Just how volatile is this market going to get, and will this current volatility end? Difficult questions to answer without a crystal ball but let's have a stab at them anyway. The current volatility is such that trends don't last long and both bulls and bears claim...

CME Hikes Silver Margins By 17%: 4th Hike In 8 Trading Days

“The total silver open interest shocked the living daylights out of bankers today. The total OI rose by 1340 contracts. The bankers were hoping to see huge number of silver leaves fall from the tree. They were shocked as there was no liquidation whatsoever.” http://maxkeiser.com/2011/05/05/the-total-silver-open-interest-shocked-the-living-daylights-out-of-bankers-today-the-total-oi-rose-...

Eric Sprott - “Sprott Has More Physical Silver Now Than Ever!” - Should trade at a ratio of one to sixteen to gold

With silver recently plummeting from $50 to the $40 area, today King World News interviewed Eric Sprott, Founder of Sprott Asset Management to clear up some misperceptions about Sprott’s sales of PSLV.  There is a great deal of misinformation out there regarding what Sprott was actually...

Silver Shield: Banksters Covered 26 Million Silver Oz Short Position

By Silver Shield May 2nd, 2011 The CFTC released it’s commitment of traders report for the last Monday’s Silver Smack Down. And it shows the big guys used the raid to cover -5,209 short contracts (each contract is 5,000 oz. of silver) which is a little more than 26 million ounces of short silver. I wonder how much they covered with a much larger raid last night? This is a huge development. As...

No Silver Lining Left for Users of the Metal

Silver investors are smiling about this year's rally in the price of the precious metal, now closing in on an all-time high. But silver's surge is hurting major users and even a few miners, including some blindsided by the relentless climb. Nearly 75% of the world's silver supply is used to make film, jewelry, mirrors, batteries, solar...

Silver outshines gold, equity this decade -

Silver has proved all theories of stock market experts wrong in this decade. Stock analysts have always believed that equity market gives higher returns in the long term. But in 2000-2010, silver has outperformed all. The $64-million question for investors now is: Where and when to put their money? Looking at the returns sought in different investment avenues in a decade, here is the answer....

Comex Registered stock has fallen fom 41M Oz to 35M Oz

April Comex Registered stock has fallen fom 41M Oz to 35M Oz since march March...

The Silver rocket

Silver is blasting off. The word on the street is that the #1 bullion bankster is caught unable to deliver physical silver. They are offering something like 50%-80% above (ie. $50-$60/oz) the market price of US$35/oz instead of physical delivery. The sharks smell blood and will go for the kill. Cash offered in lieu of physical...

AMERICAN EAGLE SILVER COIN SALES - 12 MONTHS ROLLING

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A Presidential Bombshell

By: Theodore Butler I’ve just learned something about silver that I was only vaguely familiar with previously, and I’d like to share it with you. It had a big impact on me. When I shared it with my friend and mentor, Izzy Friedman, the person who first got me interested in silver, he said it was something he never knew and he called...

India’s on/off love for silver

March 30, 2011 6:02 pm by Akanksha Awal Indians are almost as crazy about silver as they are about gold and the country ranks as the third largest consumer of the bullion, according to the most recent research on silver from Deutsche Bank. But unlike India’s recent gold craze when Indians did their bit to to drive global prices higher,...

The Silver Bullet And The Silver Shield

By Silver Shield, on February 25th, 2011“The BEST article written on silver in Ten Years!”- Jason Hommel“Article of the Week” at Silver Bear CafeThe Ultimate FREE Silver Investors Guide.Two of the most common questions I get inside of the Sons of Liberty Academy focus on two things:  how to turn back the tide of this increasingly corrupt...

Heraeus Photovoltaic unit builds Singapore facility

LONDON | Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:31pm GMT LONDON (Reuters) - The Heraeus Photovolataic Business Unit is building a new facility in Singapore to produce silver metallization paste used in crystalline solar cell applications, the company said on Monday. The company, a unit of German precious metals house Heraeus, said the plant will include research and development,...

Silver Market: King World News Mysterious London Source Could be Telling the Truth

Posted by ironstock on Feb 18, 2011 Silver has broken out to new multi-decades high, passing through the Jan. 3 intraday high of $31.21 with relative ease on Thursday, closing at $31.51 per ounce on the Comex. Are prices now set to soar? Those closest to and most expert in the silver market say, there’s a good chance of it—one expert is well-known, the other anonymous.Comments by a periodically-quoted...

US Mint Sells Absolute Record 6.4 Million Ounces Of Silver In January, 50% More Than Previous Highest Month

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Sales of 1-Ounce American Silver Coins Soar, U.S. Mint Says

January 19, 2011, 2:36 PM EST Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Sales of 1-ounce American Eagle silver coins are headed for a record this month, according to data from the U.S. Mint. About 4,588,000 coins have been sold in January, according to data on the Mint website. That would be the highest monthly total since sales began in 1986. Silver futures for March delivery dropped 11.1 cents, or 0.4...

European Silver Shortage Spreads To UK - 01/17/2011

On Friday we disclosed that major PM distributor, retailer and trading house BullionVault.com had run out of physical silver inventories in Germany (and possibly elsewhere) and was advising clients to seek the precious metal elsewhere. Today, we find that the UK joins Germany in what is now becoming the second round of the global silver...

US Mint Reports Unprecedented Buying Spree Of Physical Silver

Three days ago we noted that in just the first week of January, the US Mint had sold 2,221,000 ounces of silver "a number which if run-rated would be an absolutely all time monthly record," A quick glance at the tally today, shows that something very scary is going on. In the subsequent three days, the number has surged by 50% and has hit 3,407,000 ounces of silver! In just the first 12 days...

Silver sees largest yearly gain in at least 30 yrs

(Reuters) - Silver scored an 80 percent gain in 2010, its largest in at least 30 years, according to Friday's fixing, due to rising demand from investors seeking a cheaper safe-haven than gold and to tap into its exposure to the industrial growth cycle. The silver price fixed at 3,063.00 U.S. cents an ounce versus 3,070.00 cents...

Silver to pilot bullish commodity rally in 2011

NEW YORK (Commodity Online): As 2010 ends to a close, it is brightness in the commodities trading space globally. Throughout the year, all commodities—ranging from base metals, precious metals and agricultural produces—are all up in value, cheering commodity stocks and heralding bullish run for commodities in 2011. Gold, silver and copper have led the metals commodities price boom in 2010. Though...