Ever since July, there has been some interesting changes in the COMEX and Shanghai Futures Exchange silver inventories. The increase in physical silver investment demand that surged in July, had a direct impact on COMEX silver inventories. As we can see from the chart below, total COMEX silver inventories peaked…
According to the recently released Silver Institute 2015 Interim Report, the world experienced annual silver net deficits for 12 years running. This is surprising as the Silver Institute actually reported a small net surplus of silver in 2014. However, the small silver surplus turned into a deficit when 2014 mine…
Looks like Silver Wheaton struck it rich with its newest silver streaming agreement with Glencore. According to the deal, Silver Wheaton paid Glencore $900 million for future silver production from its share of its Antamina copper mine in Peru. Silver Wheaton receives silver from this Glencore deal at 20% of…
Rising physical silver investment demand will put a record squeeze on North American supply this year. Since 2001, the United States and Canada have experienced two opposite trends… surging official silver coins sales on the back of plummeting domestic mine supply. For example, in 2001 U.S. and Canadian silver production…
As global financial and economic systems continue to disintegrate, this will put more stress on the silver market. Why? Because elevated physical silver investment demand will likely exceed available silver supply in the future. Even though physical silver investment demand has fallen off since the huge spike starting in June,…
Yes, its true. Precious metals manipulation has taken place, but the real reason may not be fully understood by either gold and silver investors or their critics. Lately, I have seen many articles written about this subject. Even though some articles offered some interesting insight and data, there’s also a…