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Call it a silver squeeze

Marketplace All-in-One

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News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Silver hit an all-time high last week. Helping fuel that rally is a physical shortage; global demand for silver has been outstripping supply since 2020. We'll hear about the supply of silver, which has more industrial uses than its flashier cousin, gold. Also, a Brazilian oil giant will start drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River. And coming soon to a convenience store near you: individual mini Coke cans.

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Atomic symbol AU has been getting love from investors during these uncertain times, but let's spare a thought here for AG.

1:07.2

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. We're coming up on two weeks since gold crossed above $4,000 an ounce for the first time. At a time of uncertainty, maybe gold would hold value if things were to fall apart as part of the logic. Now, silver is not chopped liver either. It hit an all-time high last week, and it's gone up more than gold this year, helping fuel that rally is an actual physical shortage.

1:30.9

Marketplaces Savannah Peters reports.

1:32.6

At the beginning of the year, something weird was happening in the silver market.

1:37.1

Huge volumes of silver bars were being flown from the metals international trading hub in London to New York.

1:45.9

People literally were putting metal on airplanes and shipping it across. Maria Smirnova is with Sprott asset management. She says

1:53.0

silver is heavy. Shipping it by air across an ocean normally just isn't profitable. But fear over

1:59.6

President Trump's tariffs was driving up silver

2:02.1

prices on the U.S. market. And that's starting to happen the other way now. People are putting

2:07.6

metal on planes to go back. Smirnova says that unusual flow of silver into the U.S. in early

2:14.6

2025, plus a spike in demand for silver during the Diwali holiday in India,

2:20.8

helps explain why the London Exchange nearly ran out of physical silver last week. But underlying all

2:27.6

of that is a longer-term shortage of the white metal. There hasn't been enough investment in

2:33.1

silver mines in the last 10 years.

2:35.6

Global demand for silver has been outstripping supply since 2020, according to the industry trade

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