Silver futures rose over 10%, reaching a historic high close to the $80 mark, while New York copper increased by 5%, following the performance of Shanghai copper which also hit a historic high

On Friday (December 26), at the close in New York, spot silver rose by 10.07%, reported at $79.1075 per ounce, and by 05:34 Beijing time (after U.S. stock market hours) it increased to $79.3136, reaching a historical high, with a cumulative increase of 17.92% this week. COMEX silver futures rose by 10.84%, reported at $79.455 per ounce, and at 05:34 (electronic trading), it refreshed the historical high to $79.665, with a cumulative increase of 17.72% this week. COMEX copper futures rose by 5.01%, reported at $5.8545 per pound, and at 00:08 it refreshed the intraday historical high to $5.8880—following the performance of the Shanghai Futures Exchange copper price reaching a historical high, with a cumulative increase of 6.63% this week. Spot platinum rose by 8.84%, reported at $2456.37 per ounce, and at 23:27 it refreshed the historical high to $2472.56, with a cumulative increase of 24.61% this week; spot palladium rose by 12.38%, reported at $1940.52 per ounce, continuing to approach the peak of $2083.06 on November 17, 2022, and the peak of $3442.47 (which occurred on March 7 of that year), with a cumulative increase of 13.23% this week