Meanwhile, silver for May delivery /quotes/comstock/21e!f1:si\k11 (SIK11 3,962, +43.70, +1.12%) rose 20 cents, or 0.5%, to $39.39 an ounce ? the latest in a string of 31-year highs for the metal.
Investors kept their sights on silver at $40, and some believe it would be only a short time from that to the nominal record above $50 an ounce that spot silver hit in January 1980.
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