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Friday, December 05, 2025 | Daily Newspaper published by GPPC Doha, Qatar.

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Silver jumped to a record, surpassing a peak set during a historic squeeze in the London market in October
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Silver hits fresh record after topping peak from October squeeze

Silver jumped to a record, surpassing a peak set during a historic squeeze in the London market in October.Spot prices surged as much as 4.2% to about $55.66 an ounce. The white metal has been supported by rising hopes of a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut in December, inflows into bullion-backed exchange-traded funds and ongoing supply tightness.Friday also saw erratic price moves and thin liquidity in the silver market, after a chaotic hours-long halt to trading in futures on the CME’s Comex Exchange. By early morning US-time, most trading operations were back.Silver’s new high comes just over a month after a severe supply squeeze in the dominant silver trading hub in London last month, which sent prices soaring above levels in Shanghai and New York. While the arrival of nearly 54 million troy ounces has eased that squeeze, the market still remains markedly tight with the cost of borrowing the metal over one month hovering above its normal level.The flows into the London market have now put pressure on other hubs, including in China. Silver inventories in warehouses linked to the Shanghai Futures Exchange recently hit their lowest level since 2015, according to bourse data.“In the short term, a further price increase cannot be ruled out if registered silver inventories in China continue to decline,” analysts at Commerzbank AG wrote in a note earlier Friday.Traders are also monitoring any potential tariff on silver after the precious metal was added to the US Geological Survey list of critical minerals in November. While 75mn ounces have left the vaults of the Comex futures exchange in New York since early October, fears of a sudden premium for US silver have caused some traders to hesitate before shipping metal out of the country.Silver has surged almost 90% this year, as investors pile into alternative assets in a wider retreat from government bonds and currencies, dubbed the dabasement trade. Optimism about the metal’s fundamental supply and demand balance have also supported prices — the market is set to see a fifth consecutive supply deficit this year. Unlike gold, a large share of silver demand is industrial, with applications in solar photovolaics and electronics.Spot silver was 4.1% higher at $55.59 an ounce in London. Spot gold rose 1.2% to $4,207.68 an ounce. 

(FILES) Gold bullion bars are pictured after being inspected and polished at the ABC Refinery in Sydney on August 5, 2020. Gold's relentless rise reached another milestone on October 8, 2025 as the precious metal hit $4,002.95 an ounce for the first time. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)
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Gold price in the Qatari market increases by 3.57% this Week

The price of gold in the Qatari market increased by 3.57% this week to stand at $4,026.83000 per ounce on Thursday. Qatar National Bank (QNB) data showed that the price of gold increased from $3,887.67940 recorded last Sunday. As for other precious metals, silver rose by 1.88% on a weekly basis to reach $48.93000 per ounce compared to $48.02250 at the start of the week. Platinum rose by 3.40% to $1,667.06150 per ounce compared to 1,612.10000 at the beginning of the week.