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Metals Went from Record Highs to a Historic Selloff. What’s Next for Silver, Platinum, Palladium?
For better or for worse, everyone’s talking about silver. Believe it or not, the precious metal was the best-performing asset class last year, before face-planting at the start of 2026. After a record-breaking rally that took the price of silver over $100 an ounce for the first time in history, it has plunged by roughly a third over the past week and a half. Gold has led the upside for the past four years, but last year silver, platinum and palladium took off and outpaced the yellow metal. Market watchers say investors piled into those metals, spurred by geopolitics, US dollar weakness, cheap relative value ... (full story)