Silvercorp Metals Inc. (NYSE:SVM), Great Panther (AMEX:GPL), Silver Standard Resources (NASDAQ:SSRI) and Silver Wheaton (NYSE:SLW) all closed down Thursday even as silver and gold prices broke all-time records. It appears investors are taking some profits off the top.
Silver prices for July moved up $1.55 to settle at $47.54 an ounce.
Spot silver jumped almost 4 percent Thursday to an all time high at $49.51 an ounce, surpassing the previous record set in 1980.
Gold prices soared while silver prices climbed Thursday as investors bought the metals against a weak dollar and higher inflation expectations.
Gold for June delivery settled $14.10 higher at $1,531.20 an ounce at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. The gold price soared to a record intra-day level of $1,538.80 an ounce while the spot gold price rose $6.90.
The ICE Futures U.S. Dollar Index was down 0.4 percent. The collapsing greenback aided dollar-denominated gold and silver by making them less expensive for foreign buyers, generating more demand.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Silvercorp (SVM) (GPL) (SSRI) (SLW) Close Down as Silver, Gold Break Records
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