CaratSilver 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.
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.
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.
| 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 |
ISilver 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.
IITwo 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.
IIIWhat 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.
01What 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.
02How 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.
03Method · the desk’s arithmetic+
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.
Silver adds $1.48 and retakes Monday's mark, gold stays under
The last time silver moved this way, and how little of it held.
The trade, filed before the New York open.
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