In recent trading, silver futures have risen by 6.5%.
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The Winklevoss twins, who famously sued Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and were early supporters of bitcoin, both tweeted support for WallStreetBets in silver.
“If it is proven that silver market is fraudulent, you better believe that the gold market will be next,” Cameron Winklevoss tweeted.
Leading retail websites warned over the weekend that they face a huge demand.
“Due to an unprecedented demand for physical silver products, we will not be able to accept any additional orders for a large number of products until the world markets open on Sunday evening,” APMEX, which calls itself the world’s largest online retailer of precious metals, wrote in a statement. on top of his website.
SD Bullion warned that ‘due to unprecedented silver demand’ will also not be able to accept orders until Sunday evening. Similar notices have been posted by Money Metals and other sites.
“It is not surprising to see that the sharp and sudden increase in consumer demand overwhelms the physical supply of silver coins in the short term,” Ryan Fitzmaurice, a trading strategist at Rabobank, told CNN Business in an email.
Unlike GameStop and other non-popular stocks targeted by WallStreetBets, silver futures were strong of late. Hedge funds and other institutional investors were strong on silver futures and the precious metal traded near multi-year highs.
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