James Anderson

This past week delivered some of the most volatile price action the precious metals market has seen in years — and the headlines barely scratch the surface. Silver and gold didn’t just move higher; they signaled a major repricing already underway, with parts of the world effectively paying $100 silver today. While Western spot prices lag behind, global physical markets are moving first, revealing where real demand is setting the tone. Add in rising political pressure, tightening inventories, and accelerating industrial use, and the next phase of this bull market is coming into focus fast. To fully grasp what just happened — and what these trends mean going forward — this is a week you absolutely need to watch broken down in the video.

This past week in silver was anything but boring, and it all started with a bang. The spot silver price ripped higher in Asian trading, surging nearly $84 an ounce to a new nominal high before most investors had their morning coffee. What followed was a violent, whipsaw sell off, with sharp up and down moves that shook out anyone unprepared for real volatility. By the end of the week, silver settled at $72.86 an ounce, but the story behind those moves matters far more than the closing price. If you want to understand what really happened, why it matters, and what it could signal next, this is a week you do not want to miss, watch the full video.

Silver just blasted to a new all-time high weekly close above $79 per oz, while gold quietly set its own record above $4,500 per oz, all during what should have been a sleepy holiday week. The real story is coming out of China, where silver prices on the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) and the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) surged far above Western spot levels, signaling real physical tightness and rising demand. This wasn't paper trading noise — shrinking inventories, rising Eastern premiums, and collapsing ratios suggest silver is finally stretching its legs. Gold making new highs while silver accelerates faster is a rare and powerful setup precious-metals watchers love to see. Watch the video for a friendly, plain-English recap of everything that moved gold and silver over the past week and why it matters heading into 2026.

Gold bars weights are highly variant, and often they are not even homogenous nor fully fungible.

In other words, often enormous gold bar weights are not exact. They, therefore, cannot be traded without adequate record-keeping, weighing, and assaying.

Here we examine the changing gold bar weight standards from 'Gold Standard' eras bygone. To now smaller gold bar weights the eastern world has been demanding more of in this 21st Century gold bullion bull market.

See the varying sizes of gold bar weights available in the physical gold bullion market and learn to which country most are getting saved by.

Silver just closed over $67 per oz, and for the first time in generations, that single ounce now buys an entire barrel of oil—a price relationship that almost never happens. This rare silver-oil ratio flip is quietly signaling a major shift that Wall Street prefers to downplay, even as silver continues to outperform oil and much of the stock market. History shows this ratio doesn’t stop at parity, and past cycles suggest it can move multiples higher from here. In the new market update video, we walk through the data, the long-term historical context, and why this moment is far more important than most headlines suggest. Watch the new video to understand what this signal may be telling you before the broader market finally catches on.