U.S. MINT SILVER EAGLE SALES NEARLY 7 MILLION, INVESTMENT DEMAND VERY STRONG

Something BIG CHANGED in the silver market..

by Steve St Angelo of SRSrocco Report

With investment demand for Silver Eagles continuing to be very strong, the U.S. Mint sold nearly 7 million of the official coins in the first six weeks of the new year. Even Gold Eagles' sales hit a new record in January, pushing premiums up to $150+ for the one-ounce 2021 official coin. I believe we are going to see record physical gold and silver buying in 2021.

According to the most recent update as of Feb 9th, the U.S. Mint sold 2,121,000 Silver Eagles so far in the month and 71,500 oz of Gold Eagles. As you can see below, the U.S. Mint only sold the 1-ounce Gold Eagles in February.

As I mentioned in my subscriber article below, something BIG CHANGED in the silver market as a record 110 million oz of silver "supposedly" moved into the iShares SLV ETF. Not only did a record amount of silver move into the SLV ETF, so did the number of shares. In just three days (JAN 28th-FEB 2nd), the SLV ETF's total shares increased by 119 million. It seems to me that this was a way to CAP the SLV share price. Since the peak on Feb 2nd, the silver inventories in the SLV ETF fell by 40 million oz, and the shares declined by 44 million.

Even though the "supposed" silver inventories in the SLV ETF surged and then declined, something BIG CHANGED compared to the silver rally in July-August 2020. If you look at the chart below, we can see how little metal moved into the SLV ETF during the price rise in late July and early August. However, on a much smaller price rise recently, the amount of metal that moved into the SLV ETF was a record high.

The much talked about "Silver ShortSqueeze" will likely continue due to the lack of available physical silver and tightness in the wholesale silver bar market. If you check out the article above, I explain why how Investment Demand is now competing with Industrial Demand. This will likely turn out very similar to what is taking place in the Palladium Market.

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