Silver's 12 Percent Plunge vs Gold's Slide What the Divergence Means

The Commodities Economy with Fexingo: Oil, Gold, Wheat, and Raw Material Markets · Jun 23, 2026 · 8m · transcript

Gold has fallen five percent over the past week to around 4140 dollars an ounce. Silver has crashed more than twice as hard, down nearly 13 percent. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack why the two precious metals are diverging so sharply. They examine the industrial demand factor — silver is used in solar panels and electronics — and how recession fears in the factory sector are hammering that component. They also look at the ratio between gold and silver, which is now approaching historic extremes, and what that has signaled in past cycles. With factory job cuts in June nearing…