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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As gold continues to dominate headlines with its record-breaking rally—soaring from just over $2,000 per ounce in January 2024 to around $3,400 in mid-2025— silver is quietly gaining ground as ...

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 ...

Louisiana House Bill 386 proposes making gold and silver official currency in the state. The bill defines key terms related to precious metals and currency and outlines the Louisiana State ...

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.

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.