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Silver jumped up above $13 and ounce after hoovering in the $12. Last time we reported silver moving to $13 was over 2 months ago on September 4th, 2006.

This coming just after I offloaded 50 ounces that I had to pay for some of my other ventures. I offload them on ebay which is a great place to buy and sell precious metals. You can usually find a great price for silver by digging around or waiting it out. Most times a few quarters over spot price. I’ve written about selling gold and silver on eBay before at my personal blog, but don’t recommend selling for a spot price buy it now as I just did.

Sometimes you gotta free up some cash to make other things happen.

Platinum futures rocketed up today by $42.20 to $1,234.30. Yikes!

Could this be the next big push for metals all around? being bullish on silver means we take a lot of verbal lumps on the head as we try and bestow a semi-impartial view of the silver investing market upon our readers.

The reason as reported by Yahoo! Finance was that industrial demand for platinum in car parts and electronics has given the platinum market a much need boost. The demand is increasing without supply following. The biggest player in this news reporting was the famous Johnson Matthey that said the platinum market would have a 20K ounce supply deficit in ’06. That’s a lot of platinum needed!

Now it would make sense that where one metal goes the rest follow. A lot of investors out there don’t read the reasons why a certain commodity is increasing or decreasing and therefor just buy or sell on what news sources say the price is doing.

Platinum surges, but gold. Silver tanks, sell it all. Why? human instinct or gullability. Whatever it is we hope that trend continues and that we see that market of silver feel a little love from the Platinum shortage (or useage).

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Silver just crept up over $13.00 and ounce today in worldwide trading.

With a $0.04 jump up in silver per troy ounce, silver now rests at $13.10.

With trading closed today, we’ll have to wait until tomorrow for the silver iShares fund SLV to show a jump in trading and boost they’re shares up more.

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In a recent article by Theodore Butler over at SilverSeek.com he stated many facts based on his previous bullish look at silver and other commodities prices that make it seem like we should take his newest bullish look at silver a little more seriously. He opens the article by saying.

Since I don’t like to beat around the bush, let me state that right now I think silver is a better investment than it has ever been. Yes, I know silver was much cheaper a short while ago. At that time I tried my very best to convince as many people as I could to buy it under $5. Many did and are glad they bought it.

Aside from that bold opening statement he likes to point out that the current price of just over $10 an ounce (close to $12 as I write this) is still way below what other commodities such as gold and oil have done over the past 2 years.
The demand for silver is there, in jewelery, electronics, and ornamentation, silver is still in. And there are more people in the world than his previous bull outlook. About 500 million more people. 500 million more people to look for silver ot be bought.

He also mentions the ETF’s that have popped up for commodities which have increased demand for the world’s silver markets. SLV, the ishare’s silver traded fund has more than 90 million ounces which is still only 70% of what they want to get to at 130 million ounces. SLV has truly had little effect on price which means we could see the demand shown by that fund to increase the price of silver of the next year or two.

To read more about the bullish look at silver and get some good facts check out the article at Better Than Ever – SilverSeek.com

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Do you want to buy gold for under $300 and ounce, US dollars. How does $252.00 per ounce sound. Pretty good right.

Well if you were to adjust the recent prices in Gold and Silver for inflation you’d see that the 24 year highs that we are seeing aren’t really that high at all. Back in the late 70′s and early 80′s gold reached record highs that might have been a bit overpriced for the times but in today’s dollars would have been a bargain. If you adjust for inflation, at today’s prices of around $600 an ounce would mean that adjusted for inflation that same $600 would buy about $280-$300 an ounce.

If you look at the graph below the price of Gold adjusted for inflation has been in a steady decline (obviously so from the past 20 years), then with the recent climb over the last 7 years we really haven’t seen close to the overpriced market that we saw in the early 80′s. Gold and silver alike have a long way to climb to even come close previous record highs.

Source: How to buy Gold for $252.00 per ounce!

 

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Precious metals retreated over the last 24 hours amid worries of a falling dollar, speculation that the fed will most certainly raise interest rates, and shaky news from the middle east.

Even though the dollar is lowering the feds news that interest rates are going to be rising again put a stop to any short lived rebound that was seen in both Gold and Silver as of this week. The rising interest rates are in hopes to curb inflation that has been running rampid over the past few quarters.

The Fed’s news also comes at a time when global central banks are said to also be looking into raising key interest rates to reduce inflation and also the skyrocketing commodities prices that the world has seen over the last half year. This would mean lower prices for commodities and hurt some of the newer funds that started this year to cash in on the precious metals climb. Most notably, iShares Silver Trust (SLV:AMEX) and StreetTracks Gold Trust (GLD:NYSE) which lost 2.43 and 0.60 respectively in the days trading.

Other notables being hit today on the uncertain economic outlook and threats of interest rate hikes was Market Vectors Gold miners ETF (GDX: AMEX) and Glamis Gold Ltd (GLG:NYSE). GLG however was big news Wednesday when it announced it was doubling gold reserves and the price jumped from 31 to 34 in early morning trading.

Other news to watch out for as the precious metals market continues to rock back and forth is the possible nuclear missile testing being done by North Korea and the continued enriching of uranium by Iran. Both of these tense topics may keep precious metals at the highs we are seeing and if even a few of the worlds banks decide to forgo any interest rate hikes silver and gold could come charging back towards the end of the year.

Is silver making a move back up the ladder it jumped off of late last month?

The dollar lowered, the stock market is rebounding, and Iran is still enriching uranium. Aside from the stock market rebounding the other two indicators, although might be downers for some, for precious metals like silver they’re great indicators for a possible boost in silver and gold prices.

Precious metals tend to follow the value of the dollar and troubled times. As the dollar goes down people want to put their money in a safer place such as metals that have always held value as a medium of exchange. Also in troubled times people want safety and safety is found in precious metals like silver.

Three days straight both gold and silver have edged further ahead and look to have started off London trading ahead of yesterday.

Silver followed the markets of the world as it and other precious metals rebounded from near 3 month lows in early trading.

Silver spot prices bounced back above $10 an ounce and gold gained $13 after suffering its biggest loss of the year. This is coming after the dollar shows signs of getting weaker and tension in the middle east heats up. Stocks are rebounding as well after multiple losing weeks.