Silver Surges to Record High, Undeterred by Trading Outage

Silver deed a grounds precocious Friday aft futures contracts yet resumed trading pursuing a lengthy outage.

The precious metallic really deed a grounds of $54.65 per troy ounce precocious Thursday conscionable earlier the CME Group halted trading owed to a data-center cooling issue. But erstwhile trading yet resumed astatine astir 8.30 a.m Eastern clip the rally picked up wherever it near off.

Silver futures were up 3.8% to $55.67 per troy ounce aboriginal Friday. Silver has present climbed 90% successful 2025, outperforming Gold’s 60% jump, and is connected way for its champion twelvemonth since 1979, according to Dow Jones Market Data.