A $5 Gap That Shouldn’t Exist — But Does In a functioning global commodities market, silver should trade at roughly the same price everywhere, adjusted for shipping, insurance, and minor fees. That’s how honest markets behave. That’s not what’s happening. At multiple points in recent years, silver priced inside China has traded several dollars per ounce higher than quotes coming out of New York. Not pennies. Dollars. That spread isn’t random noise, and it isn’t a temporary glitch. When the same metal carries materially different prices depending on where you stand, the market isn’t “discovering” value anymore. It’s revealing strain. What Price Divergence Really Means Price divergence between East and West almost always points to the same underlying truth: physical…
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