LONDON, 25 November 2010 - Analysis from world-leading gold and silver exchange BullionVault features today in a detailed report on silver investing from respected financial news and advisory site, the Motley Fool UK.
"Although silver has historically risen and fallen more or less in tandem with gold, at least until the last century or so, it serves a very different purpose in a portfolio," writes Foolish contributor Selwyn Parker.
"Gold is an anti-deflation metal while silver is anti-inflation. Indeed, silver prices sometimes track those of copper, another industrial metal, more closely than gold," he says. "That's because, as BullionVault analyst Adrian Ash points out, only 35% of annual silver-buying, whether wholesale or otherwise, is down to its role as a store of value, like gold. Most of the rest is industrial. Indeed the trade body, the Silver Council, is an industrial body."
You can read the full article at the Motley Fool UK.
