RE: Guardian article16 May 2021 12:08
With faster economic growth and accelerating inflation, we should see the yield curve for silver ramp-up to new cycle highs. That is where the industrial demand for Silver kicks into high gear, and Gold tries to hang on for dear life. We have always seen Silver act as the victim of Gold price movements and due to the nature of leveraged short-sellers. Well, this time around, looking at CFTC non-commercial net long positioning, we can identify that Gold has roughly half as many net longs as its one-year average while Silver is quietly is building week over week. Rising yields will lead to continued "trimming" of Gold longs; however, the price of Gold may not see the sizable correction one would expect and actually will "drift" higher due to the rising demand for Silver as an asset. While Gold is just a currency that sits in a vault collecting zero interest, Silver, on the other hand, acts as an inflation hedge and industrial metal.