{"id":128239,"title":"Gold and silver hit record highs as investors dump stocks","publisher":"Share Talk","author":"sharetalk","published":"2025-10-17T08:46:11+00:00","modified":"2025-10-17T08:47:26+00:00","canonical_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/gold-and-silver-hit-record-highs-as-investors-dump-stocks/","markdown_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/gold-and-silver-hit-record-highs-as-investors-dump-stocks.md","json_url":"https://www.share-talk.com/gold-and-silver-hit-record-highs-as-investors-dump-stocks.json","category":"Blogs","categories":["Blogs","Mining"],"tags":["AIM","Alien Metals","ASX","Blue Moon","canada","Creswick","drill targets","ECR","ECR Minerals","Elizabeth Hill","ETFs","FCM","First Class Metals","FMET","Fulcrum Metals","GGP","Gold","Greatland","Greatland Resources","Havieron","mining stocks","Newmont","North Hemlo","Ontario","Schreiber-Hemlo","silver","Small Cap","Sunbeam","Telfer","UFO","Western Australia","Wishbone Gold","WSBN"],"featured_image":"https://i0.wp.com/www.share-talk.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GOLD-SILVER-OCT-scaled.webp?fit=1200%2C801&quality=80&ssl=1","format":"news","language":"en-GB","content":"Spot gold climbed to an all-time high of $4,378.69 per ounce, on track for a weekly gain of 8.5% — its largest rise since September 2008, when the collapse of Lehman Brothers sparked the global financial crisis.\n\nSilver prices surged to a 45-year high, breaking through their four-decade ceiling to reach $54.38 per ounce.\n\nThe FTSE 100 is on course for its most significant one-day fall since April, plunging 147 points, or 1.57%, amid renewed global market turmoil.\n\nIf losses hold into the close, it would mark the worst session for London’s blue-chip index in more than six months, underscoring growing unease across global equities.\n\n**Wall Street Futures Fall as Market Weakness Deepens**\n\nWall Street looks set for further losses when trading opens in New York, as futures point to a broad-based decline across major US indices.\n\nS&P 500 futures are down 1.2%, while Nasdaq 100 futures have fallen 1.4%, signalling renewed pressure on technology stocks.\n\nDow Jones Industrial Average futures are also down 1%, with the blue-chip index’s 30 large-cap companies expected to open lower.\n\nSmaller companies could fare even worse, with Russell 2000 futures — which track US small-cap stocks — sliding 2%, suggesting a deeper sell-off in the riskier end of the market.\n\nThe declines follow a volatile week marked by banking sector concerns, trade tensions, and a flight to safe-haven assets such as gold and silver."}