Many people know gold does well when the economy is turbulent—but gold performed in 2024 for additional “nonfinancial, geopolitical” reasons.
Source – The Jerusalem Post reported/written by Augusta Precious Metals
Silver Storm Mining Ltd. (“Silver Storm” or the “Company“) is pleased to announce that it has filed an independent National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101“) Technical Report titled “Independent Technical Report for the La Parrilla Silver Mine, Durango State, Mexico” with an effective date of December 31, 2024 (the “Technical Report“). The Technical Report updates the Mineral Resource estimate at the Company’s 100% owned La Parrilla Silver Mine Complex, located in Durango Mexico.
The Company also announces that it has entered into a debt settlement letter agreement with a drilling service provider (the “Creditor“) to settle the Company’s outstanding debt for past services performed by the Creditor in the amount of $578,200 (the “Debt“) by issuing 4,818,333 common shares in the capital of the Company (the “Common Shares“) at a deemed price of $0.12 per Common Share (the “Shares-for-Debt Transaction“).
Source – Yahoo Finance
“I think that given the setup right now, we have decent odds of returning probably — possibly — somewhere to that US$35 level before the middle of the year, and before we reach the end of this year we could probably touch potentially US$40 in silver,” he told the Investing News Network.
Peter Krauth is the editor of Silver Stock Investor.
Source – Investing News Network
“U.S. dollar and Treasury yields are lower, which is helping gold catch a bit of support… The overall uptrend remains intact and the path of least resistance favours the upside,” said Ilya Spivak, head of global macro at Tastylive.
“Prices have been stable in a range between about 2,830 and 2,960 for the past four weeks… We would need to see a convincing break above or below these boundaries to conclude that some sort of lasting directional move is resuming.”
Spot silver added 0.3% to $32.19 an ounce, platinum was steady at $957.89 and palladium lost 0.3% to $940.47.
Source – Reuters
Gold imports to Switzerland from the United States jumped to the highest monthly level since at least 2012 in April after the exclusion of precious metals from U.S. import tariffs, Swiss customs data showed on Tuesday.
The Swiss data showed that gold imports from the U.S. rose to 63.0 metric tons in April from 25.5 tons in March. It was the highest in monthly data going back to early 2012.
Switzerland’s total gold exports fell by 31% month on month in April with gold deliveries to the U.S. dropping to 12.7 tons from 103.3 tons in March.
Source – Reuters
Gold saw record investor inflows over the past four weeks, with investors scrambling for safe havens as the Trump administration’s tariff policies threatened to reorder global trade alliances.
Investors poured another $1 billion into gold in the past week, pushing four-week inflows to a record $9.9 billion, according to BofA Global.
Source – Market Watch
“People are well advised to know and expect that [silver] is going to be volatile,” Krauth said. “It’s going to be more volatile than gold, and if you talk about silver stocks, that’s another—you know, it’s exponentially more volatile.”
“Maybe it’s not a bad idea to wait a little bit to let things calm down.”
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Peter Krauth author of “The Great Silver Bull” and precious metals analyst.
