Silver prices soar to six-year high on ‘green recovery’ bet: FT

Silver prices have touched their highest level in six years, encouraged by low interest rates on other long-term assets as well as hopes that the industrial metal will be a winner in the “green recovery” promised by politicians. The price of the metal rose as much as 6 per cent to $21.17 an ounce on Tuesday afternoon — the highest in intraday trading since July 2014