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Silver Weekly Outlook: $76 After 10.6% Flash Crash — Rate Hike Pricing and the June 17 FOMC Dot Plot Are Now the Story
Silver ended the week near $76, plummeting 10.6% in a single session on May 15, a sharp selloff that stands as the largest one-session silver loss of 2026. In just 24 hours, the gold-silver ratio expanded from 53.6:1 to 58.9:1, signaling that silver absorbed twice the blow from the CPI data as gold. The fundamentals remain unchanged: structural deficits and industrial demand are intact. What has changed is the trajectory of interest rates. The June 17 FOMC meeting is now the next confirmed point where that could shift, or remain steady. The April CPI report came in at 3.8% year-over-year, while the PPI climbed to its ... (full story)