Silver price retreats toward $68 as higher yields and oil surge blunt safe-haven bid

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Silver price retreats toward $68

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Silver traded near $68 on March 26 after failing to hold the previous session rebound.
The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield climbed back to around 4.39%, reviving pressure on precious metals.
Brent moved above $106 and the dollar strengthened, adding another layer of resistance for silver.

Silver now looks less like a market healing and more like one that briefly ran out of sellers before the next wave showed up. After trading above $72 on Wednesday, spot prices swung back toward the upper $60 area, which puts the earlier rebound in a harsher light and leaves short term momentum looking damaged again.

The first area traders are likely to watch sits around $67 to $68. A stable hold there could slow the slide and give the market room to regroup, but a clean break would expose the recent floor near the mid $60 region and bring last week’s washout back into focus.

On the topside, the metal now has work to do. The $71 area looks like the first zone that needs to be reclaimed before buyers can start talking about a more durable recovery, while the low $70s to roughly $72 mark the part of the chart where the latest reversal really began to unravel.

Silver price dynamics (Source: TradingView.)

The market found a new excuse to care about inflation

Thursday’s pressure did not come from silver alone. Bond yields pushed back up, with the U.S. 10-year returning to roughly 4.39%, while real yields also moved higher, tightening the backdrop for nonyielding metals just as Wednesday’s recovery was trying to gain credibility.

Meanwhile, energy markets turned upward again today. Brent climbed above $106 and U.S. crude moved into the mid $90 zone, as tensions around the Middle East kept supply fears alive, reviving the same inflation perspective that has been unsettling precious metals and broader risk assets this month.

The dollar added to the picture. The DXY index edged back toward 100 mark on Thursday, which made it harder for silver to hold recent gains even with geopolitical stress still in the background. The Federal Reserve, for its part, left the target rate at 3.50% to 3.75% at its March 18 meeting, so the broader policy setting remains restrictive.

The next move may depend on whether panic cools or hardens

There is still a constructive version of this story. If yields slip back from current levels and silver manages to stabilize above $67, the market could try to rebuild toward $71 and then challenge the low $70s again, especially if the latest drop starts to look overdone on short term charts. That would keep the past two sessions in the category of violent consolidation rather than outright trend failure.

The weaker path is easy to picture too. If oil keeps climbing, the dollar stays firm and bond yields continue pressing higher, silver could remain trapped in a messy unwind and revisit the mid $60s before buyers show real conviction. In that case, Thursday would look less like a pause and more like the market resetting to a lower range.

Silver tends to amplify macro swings because it trades as both a precious metal and an industrial one. That split personality can make rebounds look convincing one day and fragile the next. The latest move matters not only for metals traders but also for the broader inflation conversation, because silver is now reacting to the same mix of energy stress, tighter financial conditions and fast changing risk sentiment that is driving moves across currencies, bonds and commodities.

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