FOCUS: Silver Underperforms Gold In 2013 But Expected To Regain Upper Hand
Gold has tumbled so far this year, with the move accelerating since mid-April and most analysts attributing much of this to ideas that the Federal Open Market Committee will start scaling back the monthly bond purchases meant to push down long-term yields and boost the economy, referring to as quantitative easing. Silver fell with gold since one of its roles is as a precious metal.