Silver price: Correction brings key $50 level into focus - Shanghai Metals Market

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Silver’s correction has accelerated, with the metal falling to an intraday low of $53.45 and back below its summer low of $54.40/$54.77; the piece frames the $50 area as the critical support and notes that the sell-off from the $121.67 peak has left sentiment “at rock bottom.” Gold also weakened, breaking below $4,065 support and sliding to $3,986, underscoring broad precious-metals pressure in the near term.

The macro backdrop is dominated by rising eurozone stress, especially France’s 10-year spread over Germany widening to around 175 bps and French yields moving above 5%. The author argues that higher sovereign risk, ECB policy constraints, and the possibility of broader euro fragmentation would ultimately favor gold and silver, but for now the daily and weekly silver charts remain bearish while the market tests the breakout zone near $50.