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Market Signals Of Intensifying Global Silver Shortage Driving Silver's Price Rapidly Higher
With silver’s price up 120% in 2025, market observers might expect a price pull-back as marginal new supply of metal, from recycling or investors taking fiat currency profit, is brought to market. However silver’s spot (cash) price today is surging above the March 2026 futures price on the CME/COMEX NY market, in what is called price ‘backwardation’, signaling physical supply shortage in the market. With London silver’s implied lease rate tenors now generally ranging between 7% and 8% (compared to -0.5% to +0.5% when physical silver is abundant), we can see a second confirmation of reported global shortage ... (full story)