Tag: Silver Demand

China's demand for silver fell hard in April. But is that all there is...?ANALYSTS at Barclays Bank recently noted that silver imports were down...

During the past week, price of silver dropped by 0.6%, from $28.76 to $28.58 per ounce. The white metal trades 5.8% lower in 2013....

Central banks of countries classified as emerging markets are the biggest official silver buyers for the past year. In 2013, the overall net central...

There is an increasing tendency among smaller investors and retail traders. Since gold is too expensive, they prefer to put their assets into silver....

Last week silver closed the month at $31.973 per ounce. The precious metal saw strong price volatility in January. Though, the period prices hit...

By Marcus Holland For precious metals investors, 2013 is shaping up to be a very good year. While many other investments are failing and fears...

Last week, precious metal selling saw the market decline for three of the five trading days. However, bargain hunting on Thursday and Friday saw the...

Majority of market analysts project silver prices to remain buoyant, because of an increase in demand from speculators, hedge funds and metal buying ETF’s looking for a cheap substitute for gold.

Earlier last week, strong manufacturing data from China and India, amongst other countries provided good profit opportunities in the silver trades. After retreating nearly 15.5% since early...

With only weeks weeks left until the end of the year and no solution in sight for the European debt crisis, many analysts tend to expect silver prices to end down on the year

The current macroeconomic environment is expected to hold back the industrial demand, which in turn would add pressure to the already struggling silver prices.

So far this year spot silver prices have increased more than 6.0% and investors continue to remain wary of silver.

Weakness seems evident in the precious metal markets with investors swinging more towards the risk - off sentiment.

Analysts expect China to be a major contributor in directing the price of silver, as demand continues to be driven with the metal’s widespread industry usage.

// // Last week,  silver prices changed a little after trading in a very narrow range. Still, the white metal closed 4.13% higher, after losing...

// // Last week, silver slowly added around 3% to breaking a run of four weeks consecutive losses and perhaps signalling further upside in...

// // The recent sell-off in silver weighed on the white metal's performance last week. Silver price ended slightly lower, after having ranged from...

Silver, following gold, declined for second week on a row. Investors and traders move their assets away from safe-havens and into cash and treasuries. The...