Bitcoin's value against silver has fallen to its lowest level since October 2023, as the precious metal continues to rise sharply. Now, the change in the bitcoin-to-silver ratio reflects the significant outperformance of silver against the mainstream digital asset. The contraction in the ratio marks a clear shift in investor preferences between traditional precious metals and crypto assets. Silver's strong performance mirrors bitcoin's recent 27% decline.
The price of silver reached $58 per ounce for the first time and rose by 100% in 2025.
Spot gold and silver prices fell sharply on Tuesday. Spot gold fell to $4,200, falling more than $150 or 3.6% in the day. Spot silver fell more than 6% to $49.10 in the day. XTB Chief Research Officer Kathleen Brooks pointed out that there is no clear catalyst for the sudden drop in gold and silver prices. She analyzed that the overvaluation and the signal that the US CPI data may be worse than expected together triggered the sell-off. Brooks believes that the price correction is not necessarily...
Bank of America raised its forecast for gold and silver next year to $5,000 an ounce (averaging $4,400 an ounce) and $65 an ounce (averaging $56 an ounce). Extreme imbalances in the physical silver market could return to normal at some stage, adding to volatility.
Goldman Sachs released a report on Sunday saying that silver prices will continue to rise in the medium term, driven by private investment inflows, but short-term volatility and downside risks are higher than gold, and there are two major risk factors that trigger a pullback. Click to view...
HSBC expects silver prices to reach $49.00 and $41.50 per ounce by the end of 2025 and 2026, respectively.
BMO on Tuesday made a "crazy" upgrade to its gold and silver price forecasts: it forecasts that the average price of gold in 2026 will reach $4,400, and silver is expected to reach the "5". Click to view...
The recent surge in silver prices to a 14-year high may hide the secret operations of the Russian central bank. What's even more striking is that this may just be the first step in the BRICS countries to reshape the pricing system of precious metals. Click to view...
Gold has fallen out of favour in India? In the past three months, silver prices have surged 21%, far outpacing gold's 5% gain. What's even more striking is that even as prices hit a 14-year high, investors are still buying rather than selling. Click to view...
On May 21, Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Industry Research, said that the gold-to-silver ratio usually peaks when the Federal Reserve ends its easing policy - the gold-to-silver ratio reached 100 times on May 20 and is approaching the record quarterly closing level (it reached 113 times in the first quarter of 2020). Unlike previous peaks, the current lack of a key element of Fed easing may herald a lose-lose situation for risk assets. The current gold-silver ratio (100 ...