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Bullion Star: Silver market begins 2026 in a structural breakdown
From Bullion Star, Singapore
Monday, January 5, 2026
As we step into 2026, the silver market is capturing global attention like never before. After surging more than 150% in 2025, prices are hovering around US$73 per ounce in early January. What investors are now witnessing is not a typical cyclical rally, but what increasingly resembles a fundamental repricing of silver as both an industrial necessity and a monetary metal.
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At BullionStar we have long advocated physical precious metals as a cornerstone of wealth preservation. The current dynamics in silver highlight precisely why ownership of real, deliverable metal matters more than ever.
In this post we examine the key forces behind silver's surge, with particular focus on the escalating market squeeze, the widening disconnect between paper and physical markets, regional premiums signaling acute shortages, and the growing systemic risks embedded in paper silver instruments such as exchange-traded funds.
The most striking signal in today's silver market is coming from China. Physical silver pricing on the Shanghai Gold Exchange has decisively broken away from Western paper benchmarks, with premiums reaching approximately 12-13% above LBMA spot and Comex futures prices.
A premium of this magnitude is exceptionally high by historical standards and places current conditions among the most extreme divergences observed in the modern silver market. Physical silver is thus regarded as far more valuable than what the Western paper prices currently reflect.
In effect, the physical market is asserting price leadership over the paper market. ...
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