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Silver Prices Today Bounce on Geopolitical Tensions

By , Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 -

silver prices today

Silver prices today are beginning to pop, bolstered by safe-haven demand from unsettling news on the Ukrainian-Russian border.

If silver closes up today, it will be the first time in over a month that the white metal has traded up three days in a row.

This slight three-day rally is a welcome change. Here’s what has moved silver these past few days, and what has been holding it back over the last six weeks…

Want to Know Where August Silver Prices Are Headed? Watch the Speculators

By , Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 -

august silver prices

Silver prices have been sensitive to activities in the futures markets, with prices moving almost perfectly opposite to the amount of short contracts speculators hold.

This week, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission released data that shows that silver contracts are mounting coming off weekly lows.

Here’s what that will do to August silver prices, and when to expect bigger advances.