Gold and silver can both offer big benefits to your portfolio, but one could make more sense than the other right now. Getty Images Gold has been a hot investment lately.

Looking at percentages, gold has shown more significant gains than silver over time. In the past decade, for example, gold's value has increased by around 50% in total.

Moreover, unlike gold, silver remains some distance from its all-time high. Gold reached a record $3,500 an ounce in April and has since declined 5.5% to $3,308. Although the price of silver has ...

U.S. stocks are having a rotten 2025, but gold and silver are on a roll. While the S&P 500 has fallen 3.7% year to date, SPDR Gold Shares ETF is up more than 17%, and the iShares Silver Trust is ...

dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images While gold has been making the headlines with its 15.8% rise since early January to $2365 an ounce, silver has risen by 20.8% to $28.27/oz.

Gold’s record run has left silver behind, and although the white metal hasn’t played catch-up as quickly as many investors had expected, the price ratio between the two metals has held firm ...

Kansas In 2013, the Kansas Committee on Taxation passed a bill declaring U.S.-minted coins as both of legal tender and tax-exempt. Oklahoma Oklahoma's Senate Bill 862 recognized gold and silver U ...

Meanwhile, gold and silver jumped roughly 15% and 21%, respectively, the last three months, as plummeting stocks pulled the major U.S. benchmarks even lower, and the U.S. dollar slumped to just $0 ...

While Endeavour Silver and Hecla Mining are pure-play silver stocks, Coeur Mining is a more diversified player. It derived 70% of its sales from gold and the remaining sales from silver in 2021.

Markets U.S. & Canada Market Extra Market Extra Why gold and silver fell for a third day in a row By Myra P. Saefong Last Updated: May 23, 2024, 2:43 p.m. ET First Published: May 23, 2024, 12:49 p ...

The prices of silver and gold were up more than 6% and 2%, respectively, as of 3 p.m. ET on Monday. Precious metals producers tend to generate higher profits when the prices of gold and silver rise.