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Metals and miners are a “silver” lining for investors. Read about why stocks are weak, but metals are strong – and what to do ...

Even gold enthusiasts tend to view an ardent interest in silver as somewhat eccentric. To traders it is the “poor man’s gold” or “the devil’s metal”. For years those nicknames were ...