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Short covering not speculative buying led to silver’s parabolic rise

JRB | May 19, 2011 | 9:28 pm Energy Precious Metals Silver 

Most mainstream pundits and reporters have assumed that it was speculative buying that caused silver to go parabolic. After all, it's always the dumb money or the public that gets in at the very end. However, in futures markets, parabolic...

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