Silver Price Nears $79 as Record 2025 Rally Pulls in Retail Investors and Shakes Up Global Metals Markets
Silver is ending 2025 with a move few traders will forget: prices have raced to fresh records, briefly approaching the psychologically powerful $79-per-ounce level as the precious-metals complex pushes higher into year-end. On Friday, December 26, 2025, silver surged as much as 9% to a record $78.53/oz, while gold hit an all-time high of $4,549.71/oz in the same session—part of a broader surge that also lifted platinum and palladium. Reuters The rally has been so dramatic that some market watchers are now treating silver not just as a “metal trade,” but as a story about tight physical supply, tech-driven industrial