Gold slips 0.2% Friday, silver tumbles 6.3% for the week

The divergence between gold's modest weekly decline and silver's sharp drop points to silver's dual role as both precious and industrial metal, making it more sensitive to growth concerns. Copper's weekly loss reinforces that read, suggesting the pullback is less about safe-haven demand fading than about industrial demand expectations being repriced. Whether silver continues to underperform gold — and whether copper follows — is the open question for gauging whether this is a metals-wide growth signal or a silver-specific unwind.