Silver rises 1.1% to $57.317/oz; gold up 0.25% to $4,173.63

Silver outpacing gold by roughly four-to-one on the day is the detail worth noting: the two metals usually move together, so a wider gap points to industrial or retail demand rather than the same macro bid. The split with crude, which fell, suggests this is not a simple inflation or dollar story playing out across all commodities. Whether silver's relative strength persists against gold, or reverts toward the usual ratio, is the open question.