Chris Marcus

Articles by Chris Marcus

The recent bank failures during March and April sparked a rush into gold and silver, that resulted in a spike in premiums, and delays in certain products.

However in the first 2 weeks of May, premiums have come back in as a sense of...
The silver price is down this morning, in a bit of a counterintuitive move after the latest producer price inflation data was released. Which showed lower than expected increases in producer prices, suggesting the Fed will be less...
In The Silver Institute's recent World Silver Survey, one of the interesting comments that they wrote was that despite a record deficit in 2022, and another deficit expected in 2023, they forecast the silver price dipping into the $18...
 

The US is getting closer to its latest debt ceiling deadline, and while logic suggests there will be a deal to raise the limit once again, the credit default swaps on US debt are pricing in a great deal of concern about the...
On Monday, we saw the latest bank failure during the Federal Reserve's current interest rate hiking program, with First Republic Bank being taken over by JP Morgan. Which is the latest evidence that the issues in the banking system are not...
After a frantic month and a half of order flow in the retail silver market, the conditions at the bullion dealers receded somewhat over the past week.

The spark in demand had been triggered by the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, which...
We've seen a significant rally in the silver price over the past few months, especially since issues in the banking sector emerged in response to the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes.

But where does the market go from here...
Amidst the most recent surge in physical gold and silver buying, premiums have risen again, particularly on silver eagles and junk silver. And in this week's physical silver report, we find out that the supply of junk silver has...
The past month has been kind to the silver price, with the banking instability driving silver to its highs of the year. Although to this point the silver stocks have lagged the underlying silver rally, as the mainstream investment market...
Earlier this year silver premiums dropped to their lowest levels since the COVID pandemic, after a large spike towards the end of 2022.

Yet following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, there's been a surge of demand, that still shows...

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