Summary: Silver’s Bull Run Gains Traction as Media, Investors, and Markets Align
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Precious Metals Surge: In the first half of 2025, gold and silver prices rose over 25%, and platinum surged more than 50%, signaling strong bullish momentum across the sector.
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High-Profile Buying: Investor David Bateman publicly added another 800,000 oz of silver, 7,000 oz of platinum, and 4,300 oz of palladium, reinforcing confidence and renewed interest in physical bullion.
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Silver ETF Inflows Spike: Over the last month, investors globally poured into silver ETFs, with over 43 million oz added—representing more than half of the world’s monthly new mine supply.
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Mainstream Media Turns Bullish: Major financial outlets like the Financial Times, WSJ’s MarketWatch, and The Economic Times of India published bullish takes on silver, highlighting its potential for a supercycle.
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Structural Deficits & Demand Growth: The World Silver Survey confirmed the fifth consecutive year of silver supply deficits, while SHFE became the world’s top silver futures exchange, and global central banks continue boosting gold reserves amid rising fiscal concerns.
High-profile buyers, surging ETF inflows, and global supply deficits fuel bullish momentum for silver amid growing mainstream coverage and economic uncertainty.
We want to wish a safe and Happy 4th of July to all our United States viewers out there.
There has been some good winning for gold, silver, and precious metal bulls in the first half of this year 2025.
Both silver and gold have moved up over 25% in fiat dollar values in the first half of the year, and of course platinum bulls have been enjoying over 50% gains in the first half of this year.
Probably the most noteworthy bullion related news items on this holiday shortened week are few fold.
It appears both High Net Worth and average investors are beginning to plow additional investing capital into the silver sector.
You likely recall in late March of this year 2025, we published a Youtube Weekly Bullion Market Update entitled, "$400 Million Silver Bullion Buyer Goes Public | New Silver Squeeze Findings" in which we covered the story of High Net Worth investor David Bateman going public on Twitter X about his massive bullion buying spree to start the year.
Well, he was back this week, announcing on Twitter X that he has added to his bullion positioning with an additional 800,000 oz of silver bullion, 7,000 oz of platinum, and even adding 4,300 oz of palladium bullion holdings.
Game on he exclaimed.
One look at all the four major precious metals price charts, and palladium surely seems the most depressed fo the bunch with all three other major precious metals rising at varied rates the first half of this year.
Over the last month, average normie silver investors have been piling into unsecured Silver ETFs and ETPs in both the Western and Eastern world judging from Indias various 15 silver funds. Combined they reportedly added over 43 million oz in the last 4 weeks.
That is over half of the world's monthly new line silver supply flowing to unsecured ETFs alone in June 2025.
Adding fuel to the potential silver investment demand picture is not merely a potential price breakout in the works both in spot terms but also in relative terms versus gold.
But also the recent bullish silver story coverage in both Western and Eastern financial news publications such as the Financial Times, The Economic Times of India, and the WSJ's MarketWatch website.
BULLISH SILVER ARTICLES this Week
Financial Times - https://archive.ph/8FiXv
The Economic Times of India - https://archive.is/xQCPJ
WSJ's MarketWatch - https://archive.ph/rqkhn
The Economic Times had the following to say on Silver's behalf this week.
The WSJ's MarketWatch had perhaps the most bullish silver article entitled, "The silver supercycle: Goldâs partner could be the trade of the decade. This is how to play it."
Stick around, after this break we will look at a few more interesting headlines and data points from this week as we enjoy our nation's birthday and look forward to the second of the year and beyond.
The spot silver and gold markets finished up on the week, with the spot silver price closing just shy of $37.00 oz bid and the spot gold price finishing the week at $3,336 oz bid price.
The spot gold silver ratio fell to 90 to end this week, keep on eye out for a potential breakdown in that key ratio to come.
The Trump administration's The One Big Beautiful Bill Act appears ready to be signed into law today.
The US Congressional Budget Office estimates it will add another 2.4 trillion to the nation's growing deficits in the decade to come.
Meanwhile former Administration DOGE associate Elon Musk continues banging his Twitter X feed pointing out the nation is slowly but surely going bankrupt with seemingly endless deficit spending ongoing.
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio points out that neither of the two parties is planning on cutting spending and reducing deficits as we head towards tragedy and a future fiat dollar and debt crisis.
On net, global central banks know this and about 1/3rd of them admit in polls they will be adding to their Official gold bullion reserves in the coming 12-24 months.
Silver industry body, The World Silver Survey published data confirming this a fifth year in a row of large silver supply deficits in a world of increasing industrial silver demand. As many of us await until the rising silver investment demand arrives in full so we can begin a new era of legit price discovery to come.
Probably the most interesting data point they published this week was the fact that China's SHFE is now the world's largest silver futures exchange in terms of annual derivative ounces traded, rising over 50% from 2023 to 2024 alone.
Perhaps it is not such a surprise to see reports this week that HNW investors in Hong Kong have increased their gold investment portfolio allocations from a mere 4% last year to now an 11% gold allocation and growing.
Happy 4th of July.
And as always to you out there.
Take great care of yourselves and those you love.
