"Silver - Precious metal with outstanding future - Silver as investment: The" gold of the little man "with excellent prospects as with gold, the purity of silver is measured in units.. The most often asked is the 925 silver alloy known as sterling silver. Unlike gold here is not measured in carats, but only in the degree of purity. coins and bars are almost always made of 999 silver. 925 Silver is now mainly . used in the manufacture of jewelry's most important here: In his most applications Silver is used only in small quantities, so that recycling is uneconomic at current price levels. Consequently, in recent decades been a major part of the existing physical silver by industrial use consume forever. Silver and gold as an investment are related to an investment has always been directly related to each other. As a valuable investment is in the form of ready silver bars and coins. The weight of silver is indicated for gold in ounces. Numerous used for centuries, and very stable monetary systems were based on the so-called Bimetallstandard was assessed by the gold and silver in silver in gold. In the area of investment strategies include precious metals in addition to equities, bonds and real estate into an independent asset class and are also suitable for risk reduction through diversification. Silver in physical form is different from other opportunities for investment by various factors - this is a distinction to "paper silver", that all futures contracts on silver and other types of investments which are not matched by actual metal in physical form required: Silver is a precious metal both a store of value as a precious, non-reproducible resource which is consumed by the technological demand. Inflation protection, as not in endless supply, such as investments in "paper" or agricultural commodities. No business risk (as opposed to shares) No claim to third parties (no credit risk as bonds). Property value, which focuses (high value with relatively little mass) can be stored and which is movable (as opposed to real estate). Global fungible, ie it can be uniquely detected in all currencies, a price on the number and weight. The demand for silver is the distribution on three application areas (industrial, jewelry, investment) based wide and less dependent on the development of individual applications. 70% of silver production comes from the zinc, copper and gold mining as a by-product and thus will not be any titrate. Before all, is limited at this point the offer by the lower production of these metals industry during the current economic recession even further. A large part of the - in the modern technologies used during the last 50 years - silver is completely consumed and no longer available. Unlike gold, there are no relevant central bank for silver stocks. Are the stocks disappeared once zero and the deficit is still not, the price must rise because of the described industrial as well as medium-strong monetary demand. Increases in value since as early as 2001: Similar to gold for silver is also already since 2001, continues to trend upwards, even if held in the fourth quarter of 2008, a sharp correction in the meantime. The gains are below those of gold, resulting in a historically high price ratio of about 70 ("Gold-Silver Ratio") puts it. Basically, the silver has always been subject to somewhat greater price changes, if one looks at the past. From the lowest price of silver in the early 70's by $ 2, the absolute maximum rate of 50 dollars in the early 80s, a new "sunset" of the price up to $ 6, saw the silver by the year 2008 an increase to over 20 USD, where the price in the meantime to corrected under $ 10. Today, the price at around $ 12.50 with the described appreciation potential. Whether it will be a long-lasting, steady rise, or whether we can expect a short, explosive price increase, no one can say really. The fact is that silver has increased in the past often erratic and the fundamentals are very attractive. As you can see from the above figures, is available in retail outlets in the physical silver market again and again to find an extremely tight supply situation. This is already the case since last October and is expressed about the unavailability of silver bullion or in extremely high margins between off and selling price. "What does one say to that? grannies old silver cutlery treat but not as neglected (sorry to all step-mothers)?
