(MENAFN- The Rio Times) Silver spent Monday morning circling 51 dollars an ounce, trying to steady itself after a wild week that took prices to record highs near 54 and then knocked them back to the edge of the 50-dollar line.

In the last seven days, futures volumes on COMEX spiked as momentum traders chased the rally and then rushed for the exits, turning what had looked like a one-way trade into a two-way battlefield.

Overnight, Asian markets underlined the tension. In Vietnam and other retail-heavy hubs, dealers marked down prices again and warned that thin buying could make any break below 50 dollars painful.

On India's MCX, silver futures opened softer as traders booked profits, with a firmer dollar and hawkish U.S. Federal Reserve tone encouraging a pause after the surge.

London and Zurich desks report a calmer start to the week but still talk of tight physical liquidity and brisk wholesale interest on dips.



Behind the noise, the fundamentals remain far from soft. Analysts expect 2025 to deliver a fifth consecutive global silver deficit, around 95 million ounces, with mine output barely growing and recycling only inching higher.

Demand is cooling at the margin in jewelry, silverware and some price-sensitive emerging markets, and solar manufacturers are trimming the silver content of panels.

Yet industrial use for electronics, data centers and electric vehicles still anchors the story, while exchange-traded products have added close to 200 million ounces of metal this year.

Technically, the daily chart still shows a solid uptrend: prices sit well above the 200-day moving average and momentum, though no longer euphoric, is positive.

On the four-hour chart, by contrast, indicators signal a corrective phase after the blow-off move to 54, with short-term momentum pointing lower and traders watching 49–50 dollars as a make-or-break support zone.

If that floor holds, disciplined investors who favor hard assets and market pricing over political experiments may feel vindicated by another leg higher.

If it breaks, silver's recent rally will look more like a warning about speculative excess than a vote of confidence in the world's favorite industrial precious metal.

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