Silver adds 4.87% to $66.835, highest mark since 31 August
Gold added $65.00 to $4,375.70, platinum $38.00 to $1,807.00 and palladium $35.00 to $1,305.00, all read off Kitco's bid at 06:03 EDT. LBMA's Thursday fixes confirm the direction on every metal.
By The Prices Desk
What changed
All four metals rose. Silver reached $66.835 an ounce, up 4.87% on Thursday's mark. Gold, platinum and palladium rose too, none by as much.
What it means
- If you price silver stock: the ounce moved 4.87% in one session. Recheck the counter before quoting.
- If you buy gold for the holidays: the mark is $4,375.70, above every reading since 9 September.
- What this is not: a new high. Silver's 28 August mark of $70.37 still stands above it.
Key figures
| Silver / ozup 4.87% on Thursday | $66.835 |
|---|---|
| Gold / ozup 1.51% on Thursday | $4,375.70 |
| Platinum / ozup 2.15% on Thursday | $1,807.00 |
| Palladium / ozup 2.76% on Thursday | $1,305.00 |
Source: Kitco's live bid, read 2026-09-18 06:03 EDT · change measured on Carat Capital's 17 September marks
Silver led the four
Biggest of four. Silver's 4.87% gain was the largest of the four metals, and the only one above 3%.
Below its own peak. The 28 August mark of $70.37 remains the highest silver reading in Carat Capital's record.
| Metal | 18 Sep | 17 Sep | Change | Change % | Highest since |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver | $66.835 | $63.73 | +$3.105 | +4.87% | 31 August |
| Palladium | $1,305.00 | $1,270.00 | +$35.00 | +2.76% | 9 September |
| Platinum | $1,807.00 | $1,769.00 | +$38.00 | +2.15% | 9 September |
| Gold | $4,375.70 | $4,310.70 | +$65.00 | +1.51% | 9 September |
Notes on this table
Source. Kitco's live board, bid quoted, read at 06:03 EDT on 18 September 2026 from the page's own embedded data.
Carat Capital's arithmetic. 66.835 − 63.73 = +3.105, and 3.105 ÷ 63.73 = +4.87%; 4,375.70 − 4,310.70 = +65.00, and 65.00 ÷ 4,310.70 = +1.51%.
Highest since. is measured against Carat Capital's own daily marks: every silver mark from 1 to 17 September, of which the largest was $66.57 on 4 September.
Second page. LBMA's published 17 September fixes read gold 4,368.10, silver 64.125, platinum 1,796.40 and palladium 1,300.25, all below the bid quoted here.
Two pages, one direction
Kitco and LBMA agree. Kitco's bid at 06:03 EDT sits above LBMA's Thursday fixes on all four metals, by 0.17% on gold and 4.23% on silver.
Spreads stayed normal. The bid-ask gap read $2 on gold and $0.25 on silver, normal enough to rule out a frozen cell.
What the counter pays
Silver jewellery reprices. A 20-gram silver piece carries about $42.98 of metal at $66.835 an ounce, against $40.98 at Thursday's mark.
Gold above the fortnight. Gold's $4,375.70 is above every reading since 9 September.
What to watch
- 21 September 2026Monday's opening mark, and whether silver holds above $66.
- 21 September 2026The weekly refresh of the natural-diamond trade headline, due on the Monday run.
- Q4 2026Whether silver holds the August range into the holiday manufacturing season.
The story so far
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Corrections
Citation completed, 19 September 2026. As published on 18 September this article cited a single LBMA address, gold_pm.json, for a comparison that rests on all four metals' fixes. That endpoint carries gold only. The three remaining feeds, silver.json, platinum_pm.json and palladium_pm.json, were fetched on 19 September and each carries its 17 September fix: silver 64.125, platinum 1,796.40, palladium 1,300.25. Every figure printed on 18 September was correct as published and none has changed; the three addresses have been added to the sources list. What was wrong was the citation, not the arithmetic. Found by this paper's standards desk.
What would change this call
A single reading is not a trend. One session that reverses on Monday would leave the September range intact, and the 28 August level unbeaten.
How this mark is built
One price per metal per morning, and one record carrying it. The prices desk reads Kitco's live board at 05:00 ET and files the bid to a dated file and to the file the dashboard renders. The Editor may read the same board again at press time when a metals story runs; if the number has moved, the newer verified reading replaces the opening mark in both files before the edition builds, and the article prints that same number. The second page is LBMA's published fix for the prior session, used to confirm direction rather than to set a level, because a fix and a live bid are different instruments and are never averaged.
Method
Kitco's board was read at 06:03 EDT from the page's own embedded data, timestamped 2026-09-18T06:02:58Z, bid quoted. The four marks are gold $4,375.70, silver $66.835, platinum $1,807.00 and palladium $1,305.00, and they replaced the 05:00 readings in the dated record and in the file the dashboard renders, in the same step; the two files were compared afterwards and match to the decimal on all four metals. Change is measured against the 17 September marks, which were looked up rather than reversed out of a change field: gold +$65.00, silver +$3.105, platinum +$38.00, palladium +$35.00. The superlative in the headline is traced, not asserted: every daily silver mark from 1 September to 17 September was read, the largest of them was $66.57 on 4 September, and the 31 August mark of $66.879 is the first one above the level printed here, which is what makes 31 August the anchor. The gram figures use 31.1035 grams to the troy ounce: 66.835 ÷ 31.1035 × 20 = $42.98, and 63.73 ÷ 31.1035 × 20 = $40.98. No outside divergence was found to disclose; both pages move the same way on all four metals. CITATION COMPLETED 19 September 2026: as published on 18 September this article cited one LBMA address, gold_pm.json, for a comparison that used all four metals' fixes. That endpoint carries gold only. The three remaining feeds were fetched on 19 September and each carries its 17 September fix - silver 64.125, platinum 1,796.40, palladium 1,300.25 - so every figure printed on 18 September was correct as published and none has changed. The three addresses have been added to the sources list. Found by the standards desk.
Sources
- Precious metals live board, Kitco
- LBMA gold price PM, 17 September 2026 fix (4,368.10) 17 September 2026
- LBMA silver price, 17 September 2026 fix (64.125) 17 September 2026
- LBMA platinum price PM, 17 September 2026 fix (1,796.40) 17 September 2026
- LBMA palladium price PM, 17 September 2026 fix (1,300.25) 17 September 2026