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.

Amid inflation and uncertainty in the economy, many investors are exploring alternative investments like gold and silver. Here's what experts recommend before you buy.

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.

Silver, however, may soon get another shot. Late last month, gold and silver were trading virtually neck and neck in terms of year-to-date gains — with both up more than 14% for the year at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.