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The dollar inched higher against the Japanese Yen, low against all things European, and the stock market jumped on good earnings by Google. All this spelled a bad two days for gold and silver.

Silver was down nearly a dollar after showing signs of regaining those highs seen over the last few months. However, with the Stock Market looking like it may not be the abiss that many thought it was, we may just see a slowdown in precious metals purchasing leading to lower prices.

Is the commodiites run over? What’s your opinion? I can’t see that happening with the expansion everywhere in the world, the need for silver in industrial processes, and comments like these comments on blog silver how can there be a retreat in prices. There may be a dip but probably not a retreat.

Silver and gold rose today as reports of a weakening dollar and worldwide inflation pushed investors into buying precious metals. Silver, which has been on an upward roller coaster since the beginning of the year, is creeping back up to highs seen last month as the worldwide markets continue to show high volatility.

Silver prices are topping $18 an ounce currently and gold is shooting past $940. The EU reported that it’s nations saw inflation of 3.6% in month of March making the 15-nation currrency rise to $1.5978 against the dollar. An all-time high!

The dollar also dropped against both the British pound and the Japanese yen. The European Central Bank, in charge of the Euro, unlike the US Fed, will work to curb inflation by not lowering interests rates below 4%.

Visa recently had the largest (dollar amount) IPO in Wall Street history providing many of the underwriting banks much needed boost in earnings for the quarter. Maybe even for the year.

This IPO, lower interest rates from the Fed, and some people thinking the price of most precious metals is way too high, like gold and silver, makes for a tough market on silver. In one week the price of silver went down nearly 4 dollars a troy ounce. You knew it had to happen sooner or later, the price was just escalating to rapidly.

So what does that mean for your investment strategy? Should you get out too? Well if you bought at $21, I might have to suggest sticking it out, (although don’t take my investment advice, I beg you). But with the recent sell off, and inflation not being helped by lower interest rates (at least I think that’s how it goes) you may see the price of silver climb again.

But don’t bet the house on it, only as much as you can loose.

The price of silver, per troy ounce, has been dancing around $20 this past week as the dollar continues to weaken and investors look to safer investments for the time being.

The following, pulled from an article on Money.com Jon Nadler, a senior analyst at Kitco Bullion Dealers in Montreal

He says it is “not inconceivable” to see gold prices reach $1,000 an ounce before the Federal Reserve meets on March 18, depending on what sort of economic data is released between now and then.

Gold at $1,000 a troy ounce. What then is Silver’s $1k mark? Is it $20, is it $25, or could it even be going to $30!!!

I’ll put my money on silver settling around $22 a troy ounce by the end of the month. That’s almost doubling it’s price in the last 5 months. As the market gets more and more volatile investors will need safer places to put their money, and with the dollar looking weak and continuing on that trend, precious metals just seem like the right place to go.

Silver, per troy ounce, is up to $18 a share, surpassing highs that it hasn’t seen for more than 25 years. Shares of the ETF, SLV, is up 20% this year to $179 a share. Silver is on the rise following golds all time highs.

We here at Blog Silver have been tracking silver for a while, and have been very bullish on silver both with the dollar declining, and with China expanding with the rest of the world, silver is looking like an easy way to get into the precious metals market. It might be tough to get into the gold market, with the price of gold being over $900 per ounce, silver is much easier being under $20.

With silver being included in a lot of computer parts, and the rest of the world catching up to America in terms of technological advancements, the world will need a lot of metal to keep up with all those advancements. One of those metals, easy to get into, is silver.

It happened, with all this writing about silver heading past $17 and ounce it finally happened. Although it did retreat back below $17 to the high $16 per troy ounce, silver saw 17 and it’s only a matter of time before it creeps back above, or so you would think…

With the economy showing strong signs of not knowing what the heck it wants to do, you’ll begin to people pulling their money out of the stock market and putting it into safer investments. One of those investments, as it has historically been, is precious metals like gold and silver.

With China and other developing nations gobbling up commodities lowering the available supply out there, with ETF’s like SLV making it easier for individual small investors to buy precious metals, one would think the price of silver would rise.

We think it’ll go to $20 soon enough, and if you’re looking for a good play outside of the world of stocks and bonds, you may want to look into buying silver.

The price of silver edged closer and closer to $17 a troy ounce at the close of last week. The world economy is still fairly volatile but the price of precious metals remains a pretty fairly bullish market, continuing the run that started over two years ago.

As earnings come out for several large companies in the US the dollar, and more so the US economy will help dictate if the world still wants to keep it’s money safe in things like precious metals (although not always that safe).

Time will tell if the price of silver can surpass the $20 mark, which doesn’t seem too far fetched as the demand continues to grow around the world in newly developed nations such as China, and with the economy still so volatile.

The price of a troy ounce of silver is remaining around $16 even after the Feds came out yesterday and extremely lowered rates saving a potential disastrous day on Wall Street.

Silver and gold are sticking around and keeping your money in them right now could be a good thing. They hold real value and with the markets so volatile, may be the place to put your money.

Another thing to look at is how China will effect the price of silver and how their use of the precious metal will affect the price of a Troy ounce. With less silver on the market, if China buys and buys, the price should go up because of the need for silver.

Only time will tell, but silver may still be a good investment even at these long time highs.

The price of a Troy Ounce of silver dropped back below $16 today with US markets closed for the MLK holiday. No ETF’s are trading meaning SLV is also stagnant and will most likely see a drop off in price tomorrow when the markets open.

The price of silver was enjoying a few days above $16 while the world waited to see what the US economic outlook would bring. It appears investors from the rest of the world, also trading the precious metal silver, couldn’t wait much longer and the price of a Troy ounce has begun to pull back.

It will be interesting to see what the Fed’s news next week, to lower rates or keep them the same will do to the precious metals sector which usually raises with economic downturn or news indicating such. (Chances of the Fed raising rates next week are slim to none)

It seems as though we’ve written this article before? The price of silver rising as the dollar sinking? Yup!

But it’s true. As America tries to figure out if it’s economy really is in a downturn, or recession even, the dollar will continue to be weaker. This, as it usually does, makes people try and find safer investments for their money while the economy tries to shake out what’s going on.

As has been the case for hundreds if not thousands of years, precious metals hold their value as a medium of exchange. Therefore, people find safety in holding precious metals like silver and thus put more money into them.

If you don’t want to buy silver bars, as sometimes buying large bars of silver and gold can be a bit annoying, you could buy into these through ETF’s like GLD and SLV provided by iShares. These are backed by silver and gold and tend to follow the price of silver and gold pretty closely.

In this time of economic turmoil, you may be able to safeguard your money if you put it into precious metals like silver.