Live US spot prices for silver, gold, platinum, and palladium, and news about precious metals and investment-grade bullion coins are available here.
Precious Metals Charts and Spot Price Defined
The bullion prices in the charts above come from Kitco.com and are a good indicator of where precious metals stand while the market is open. For more information, you can click on each chart.
What does the "Spot Price" mean? Generally speaking, the spot price is the given cash price of a commodity, like silver, gold or platinum, at a given time and place. It never includes the "extra" costs you may have to pay in buying something, like broker commissions, transaction and storage fees, delivery fees, seller markups, etc.