iShares Silver Trust

Every Friday, at 3 p.m. ET, Ritholtz Wealth Management CEO Josh Brown and Benzinga CEO Jason Raznick host "The Boiler Room," a Clubhouse audio chat where listeners can pitch their favorite stock. Here are this week's pitches. Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Alphabet Inc-owned Google...

Silver traders were taken for a wild ride this week as the /SI futures contract opened with a big upside gap on Feb. 1, and at one point that day was up more than 20% from the Jan. 29 close on very heavy volume. Internet buzz about an effort to push the iShares Silver Trust ETF (NYSE: SLV) into an...

Precious metals started the year as one of the most hated asset classes after a 2013 that wreaked havoc on gold, silver, and even platinum prices. Unfortunately, after a brief rally attempt in the first quarter, silver is once again slipping back down near its 2013 lows and appears to be...

Peruvian stocks and the ETFs they call home entered 2013 with plenty of promise. Amid another decent year for precious metals prices and robust economic growth, the iShares MSCI All Peru Capped ETF (NYSE: EPU) jumped 24.2 percent in 2012. Welcome to 2013, the year of the repudiated metals trade...

Protecting your assets from exogenous events should be a primary concern for all investors. We invest to make money, but even before that our No. 1 objective should be to avoid losing money. If the chaos in Egypt spreads, the effects on equities, currencies and commodities could be profound, and...