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Metals Market News

Together in a good year the industry spends about $2 billion more than it generates in earnings and takeovers. In a bad year the industry loses $8 billion more than it generates, Rick Rule of Global Resource Investments warned, in what he termed the “price loss ratio.”

Thursday’s announcement from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce included some minor adjustments to the quotas allocated in this second batch of confirmed allocations, resulting from the subsequent inclusion of data relating to the last months of 2011.

Once every year gold and stocks form a major yearly cycle low. Commodities form a major cycle bottom every 2 1/2 to 3 years. Every once in a while all three of these major cycles hit at the same time. I'm pretty sure that's what is happening right now.

Wholesale market gold prices climbed as high as $1,594 an ounce during Friday morning's London trading, jumping 1.5% in the first two hours, while Eurozone stocks looked to have stemmed four days of losses despite Greece and Spain seeing negative ratings decisions.

Silver Bullion

Silver bullion is well suited for investors with an eye on long-term wealth growth and preservation via a fully insured, professionally managed bullion purchase or physical delivery.

SILVER BULLION BARS - comex/nymex/lbma certified

International Metals offers silver in the form of pure .999 fine 1000 ounce silver bullion bars.  Each bar is  produced by a leading COMEX, NYMEX or LBMA approved refiner such as Johnson Matthey or Credit Suisse and individually hallmarked to certify weight and purity.

SILVER BULLION COINS - comex/nymex/lbma certified

International Metals also offers silver in the form of pure 99.9 fine 1-ounce coins.  Currently, we offer offer the American Silver Eagle and the Canadian Silver Maple Leaf.

ABOUT Silver

For more than 4,000 years, silver has been regarded as a form of money and store of value. Although silver is relatively scarce, it is  the most plentiful and least expensive of the precious metals. However, unlike gold, silver is most commonly used today as an industrial oommodity. Industrial demand for silver has grown consistently for the past three decades because of silver's many unique properties, including its strength, malleability, and ductility...its unparalleled electrical and thermal conductivity...its sensitivity to and high reflectance of light...and its ability to endure extreme temperature ranges.

It is estimated that more than 95% of all the silver ever mined throughout history has already been consumed by industrial use. That silver is gone forever, unrecoverable at any price. In 1900, there were approximately 12 billion ounces of silver in the world. Today, that figure has fallen to about 300 million ounces of above-ground, refined silver. This means that at current prices, it would only take about 4 billion dollars to purchase all of the above-ground silver in the world today.

Many of the world's leading investors and financial analysts and advisors believe that silver is one of the world's most important commodities, with unparalleled investment opportunity for the future. Silver's unique properties, which make it ideal and essential for global industry, create a situation where there is simply no substitute. In addition, silver prices at times have been extremely volatile, making silver an attractive investment and trading vehicle.