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Why the silver price spiked - and crashed

Mineweb | May 17, 2011 | 7:24 am Precious Metals Gold Silver 

The market was meant to be in surplus but somehow investors were in the midst of a buying frenzy that flew in the face of fundamentals. Big banks such as JPMorgan were known to be shorting the market - and...

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