Silver price jumps above $80 and SLV surges after hours as Fed-and-jobs week bites
NEW YORK, Jan 6, 2026, 17:18 EST — After-hours Shares of iShares Silver Trust, a silver-backed trust that trades like a stock, rose 6.7% to $73.71 in after-hours trading on Tuesday, as spot silver — the cash price for immediate delivery — jumped 5.4% to $80.68 an ounce. “Precious metals traders see more risk on the horizon than stock and bond traders do at present,” said Jim Wyckoff, a senior analyst at Kitco Metals, citing the weekend U.S. raid in Venezuela and renewed safe-haven demand. Reuters The jolt matters because SLV is a heavily used proxy for silver in equity