Rafi Farber

Articles by Rafi Farber

 

The bad news is that the silver price is getting walloped. The good news is that so are the Comex physical silver stocks. One vault in particular - Malca Amit - put its entire stock of over 3 million ounces up for sale against...
Silver remains in a tight trading range as open interest in silver futures nears a 6 month high.

That suggests a price smash ahead for paper traders is a strong possibility in order to get those numbers down. The possibility of a spot...
The big news in the silver space this week was that there was another large withdrawal from the COMEX registered silver supply, bringing the registered category down to 28 million ounces.

There's been a steady drop in that inventory...
With the Treasury down to $68 billion and a debt ceiling deal just around the corner, few are considering what happens to banks when a deal finally is struck and the Treasury has to raise $1 trillion in short term cash in a matter of weeks...
Short term Treasury markets are predicting a temporary debt ceiling breach as the spread between 1M and 3M yields has blown up to the highest level ever this week.

That means short term money is piling into the most liquid and short...
Want to hear something hilariously ridiculously ludicrous? Get this. The Chair(man) of the Fed(eral Reserve) actually said that Silicon Valley Bank was an irresponsible "outlier" because - get this - it bought too many US Treasuries!...
Well, it's happening. The Federal Reserve is bailing out regional US banks to the tune of $2 trillion according to Bloomberg. This as the "systemically important" Credit Suisse gets a bailout from the Swiss National Bank consisting of SNB'...
Something is rotten in the State of New York. Specifically, in the silver vault of JPMorgan. The megabank has put up over 7 million ounces of silver for sale in the past two days alone, moving them from eligible storage to registered....
The silver selloff over the last two weeks has certainly been frustrating, but the good news is that open interest (unsettled futures contracts) in gold has now hit two year lows, which usually coincides with intermediate bottoms.

The...
Exactly two years ago, thanks to sound money warriors, physical silver ownership exploded into the public consciousness. Silver prices have been in a down trend, but that down trend appears to have finally been broken this week.

Silver...

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