Silver Miners Sliding, Not Shining

By CommodityHQ: By Ryan Fuhrmann

By Tom Lydon: With the Federal Reserve fully intent on throwing more money into the system, precious metals assets are strengthening, and investors have been particularly voracious in taking on silver and silver miner exchange traded funds.Usually when silver is outperforming gold, it is a bullish sign for the precious metals complex. Silver has been leading the way recently, although the metal stumbled to open the week with a 2% setback Monday morning.

By Jim Pyke:Current market uncertainty has caused many investors to seek safety in precious metals, including gold and silver.

Tom Lydon submits: Silver prices these days seem to be unstoppable. But it’s not just the physically-backed silver exchange traded funds leading the charge higher.

Michael Johnston submits:Global X, the New York-based ETF issuer known for its line of sector-specific China ETFs, has launched two new ETFs focusing on stocks of copper and silver miners.

By Benzinga: The question that many precious metals experts and traders have been asking this year is when are gold and silver mining stocks going to start to trading more inline with the underlying metals? Maybe that question has been asked more frequently regarding gold because has outperformed silver this year, but silver miners have also lagged silver futures.

ByChristopher F. Davis: Introduction

ByChristopher F. Davis:Since the summer, gold and silver mining stocks have been outperforming the physical metals themselves and encouraged investors to buy then.