The iShares Silver Trust(NYSE:SLV) is making another fresh 52 week high this morning. The popular SLV is advancing higher by 0.53 cents to $29.13 making this an all time high this ETF. Recently the CFTC has raised margin requirements on silver and gold, however, both of these precious metals have continued to rally as of late. There are a lot of reports that suggest the silver markets have been manipulated by some major banks to artificially keep the price of silver down. However, silver has continued to rally sharply higher since late August when the Federal Reserve Bank announced it’s quantitative easing program.
Silver Wheaton Corp.(NYSE:SLW) operates a leading global silver streaming company. This stock has advanced sharply throughout 2010 to a new all time high. Today Silver Wheaton Corp. is trading higher by $1.28 to $40.62. As long as central banks around the world continue to try and inflate asset prices silver, gold , and the silver and gold mining stocks can be bought on pullbacks or corrections.