Silver Nears $79 for the First Time Ever in Unprecedented Rally
Silver prices have exploded to historic levels this week, driving the precious metal close to $79 per ounce amid one of the most dramatic commodity rallies in recent memory. The surge marks a continuation of an extraordinary 2025 where silver has repeatedly shattered records and outpaced even gold’s own historic gains.
What’s Driving the Surge?
A combination of macroeconomic, geopolitical, and supply-demand forces has propelled silver. Markets are pricing in additional Federal Reserve rate reductions in 2026. Lower interest rates tend to weaken the U.S. dollar, making non-yielding assets like silver more attractive to investors. Also with the current geopolitical tensions and concerns about currency stability have pushed investors toward traditional safe havens such as precious metals. Silver historically viewed as both a store of value and an industrial metal has picked up demand on both fronts.
Beyond its role as a monetary metal, silver is increasingly critical to modern technologies, including solar panels, electric vehicles, and data-center infrastructure. Surging industrial demand, coupled with persistently tight global mining output, is tightening the silver market.
The surge has attracted a wide range of participants from institutional safe-haven buyers to retail and speculative traders. As someone who trades paper silver and hold physical it's been fun to be a participant in the rally.
Every time I looked today it was up another $1
It was so wild I'm trying to figure out when to unload some of the physical I can't believe we continue at this pace.
Man I wish HIVE would see some movement like this!
Me too I have a lot more hive than silver lol
For sure!
Gold is at the half way point before becoming stable…. Silver has a long way to go before reaching a Silver/Gold Ratio of 10 to 1… This will happen faster than people think…
Trying to make fix the ratio this year
It will soon be 10 to 1 when measured in U.S. Stable Coinage…
After 50, when the candles were given above, it seemed that it would definitely go up and today, look, the people who had trusted in it are making a good profit.
The question is how long can we sustain this
It's silver's perfect storm, the latest straw was Industrial demand that Procurement managers needed to secure physical silver product as soon as possible that is a necessary input for scheduled contract commitments. Next will be the Institutional Actuaries as they are expected to annually reconfigure their portfolios, this time to include Precious metals. I've done very well in both my physical and non-physical holdings. It's exciting to watch my holdings grow in leaps and bounds but I'm not popping the champagne yet.
This is a good time to buy silver. I will not be surprised if silver hit $100 before the first quarter of 2026