The short squeeze in silver is fairly remarkable and obvious to all but the most pig-headed or willfully misdirecting. Looking at the Comex warehouse, SUPPLY is consistently and smoothly decreasing even while PRICES are increasing sharply.
Silver does appear to have hit a bit of a 'high note' here perhaps, and has once again come far and fast. A consolidation or a pullback might not be unexpected, depending on what US equities might do. For now many things are riding on the dollar liquidity bubble, including those who are merely fleeing it and seeking safer stores of wealth, particularly in Asia. Silver is outperforming gold as demonstrated by the decreasing gold to silver price ratio, no doubt influenced by the fact that the central bankers have access to gold in their national treasuries, but few have any silver. Silver is in a short squeeze, and so volatility and upside surprises are to be expected.
Intraday comments on the Comex Silver market were given here.
As for gold, the Financial Times notes that the world demand for gold is doing better than you might have gathered from the mainstream media.
"Unbelievable. Explosive. Insatiable. These are some of the words bankers are using to describe the gold market. That may come as a surprise, as the gold price has had an uncharacteristically quiet start to the year, for the most part trading either side of $1,350 an ounce.Perhaps the Federal Reserve and Wall Street Banks can send some one of their missionaries to China to educate them on what constitutes real wealth. Timmy may be ready to give it another go.
The dramatic language is being applied to the strength of Chinese demand. Many have been truly shocked by the level of Chinese buying in the first few weeks of the year. As one senior banker (who is not prone to hyperbole) put it: “The demand in China is vast. It’s unbelievable. Whatever you think the demand is it’s much bigger… I’m really staggered.”
