SLVP News and Press, iShares MSCI Global Silver and Metals Miners ETF From 05/24/19

Traditional fundamental analysis in the silver market is a useless exercise. Since silver is a byproduct of gold, copper, lead, zinc, and other metal output, the production cost of the precious metal is a metric that rarely factors into its price path. The price of silver moves higher or low...

By Emily Doak Almost everyone can name a sports team that always seems to be "in-the-hunt" for the playoffs, or a superstar athlete that has dominated his or her field for decades. Sometimes fund managers make similar claims about their ETFs' performance by touting their star-ratings, an...

Last Friday, on May 10, the trade dispute between the US and China escalated with sent a wave of uncertainty through markets across all asset classes. Source: Barchart The chart of the VIX volatility index shows that the metric that moves higher when stock prices move to the downside tr...

In November 2018, the price of silver traded to a low at $13.86 per ounce which was only 22.5 cents above the level of critical technical support in the silver futures market at the December 2015 low at $13.635. After rising to a peak at $16.20 on the continuous COMEX futures contract in late ...

In just a little more than a week after the mighty Newmont-Goldcorp (NEM) merger was finalized, the company suspended operations of its largest gold-silver mine in Mexico. The Penasquito Mine, which produced more than a 500,000 ounces of gold and 25 million ounces of silver in a single year, h...

Gold and silver are historically undervalued relative to the stock and bond markets. The junior mining stocks overall are at their most undervalued relative to the price of gold since 2001. Gold's relative performance during the quarter, when the stock market had its best quarterly performance...

In 1995, together with three other traders, I took a proprietary position in the silver market that was more substantial than the long held by the notorious Hunt brothers in the late 1970s and 1980. The size of our silver holdings rose above 250 million ounces when the price was trading at und...

Silver has traded in a range from $14.86 to $16.20 per ounce so far in 2019. After trading to the lowest price since early 2016 at $13.86 in mid-November 2018, the price of silver recovered. Silver has been underperforming gold, and last year then price action is silver lagged the trading patt...