Posted 13th styczeń 2025

Silver Price News: Silver Ends with Weekly Gain of 3.4%

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Silver prices climbed to their highest for one month on Friday, ending the week with week-on-week gains of 3.4%, as gold made similarly strong moves on Friday.

Prices briefly spiked to $31.40 an ounce – their highest since December 12th. However, this did not represent repeatable trade, and prices eased back to $30.45 an ounce by Friday evening.

Silver (KAU) price – $/oz – on the Kinesis Pro exchange

Economic uncertainties drive safe-haven interest

Precious metals continue to benefit from uncertainty over the prospects of US trade tariffs and their potential impacts on global trade and financial markets.

Recently traders have scaled back bets on further interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve as possible incoming trade barriers are likely to keep inflation higher for longer. While this factor is notionally bearish for precious metals prices, the uncertainties in the wider markets have maintained interest in safe havens like gold and silver.

Meanwhile, industrial production in India rose by 5.2% in November, well above market expectations of 4%, according to figures released on Friday. Meanwhile, manufacturing production in the country grew by 5.8% — the most since October 2023, in a bullish signal for industrial silver demand from one of the world’s largest consumers.

Technical analysis

On the technical charts, silver faces potential rising oblique minor resistance at $30.41 an ounce, with the downside offering Fibonacci support at $29.74 (61.8% retracement of the August-to-October 2024 bullish move). Should silver prices fall below this level, further support can be expected at the horizontal trend line at around $28.90 an ounce.

We note that the 10-day Relative Strength Index is moving higher at 58.5, which may begin to indicate an overbought market if further gains are achieved. Silver is also now a little above its 20-day moving average of $29.82 an ounce.

Frank’s experience covering the commodities markets spans 22 years, with a particular specialism in metals, carbon and energy markets. He has worked as a senior editor for S&P Global Commodity Insights (formerly Platts) and before this, at ICIS-LOR, a part of Reed Business Information (Reed Elsevier), where he covered the petrochemicals markets from 2003 to 2005.

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