Silver (SI=F) September futures opened at $65.46 per ounce on Thursday, August 13, 2026, down 0.4% from Wednesday’s closing price of $65.70. Silver prices inched lower this morning, reaching $65.23 as of 8:11 a.m. ET.
Opening silver prices are back up over $65 this morning, bringing the precious metal’s year-over-year gains to 70.2% ahead of this morning’s Producer Price Index (PPI) report. Today’s PPI report will be another important signal that will help indicate how the Fed will act following its rate-setting meeting next month.
Yahoo Finance Fed Correspondent Jennifer Schonberger said yesterday’s cooling CPI report “bolsters the case for the Federal Reserve to wait. It’s hard to see them hiking in September now that we’ve had two back-to-back months of cooling inflation.”
Schonberger added that today’s PPI report, coupled with the July reports for employment and CPI, will help paint a much clearer picture for September.
“I think there’s still question marks about what’s going to happen in September based on what we see on PCE numbers, … but at this point it’s hard to see them hiking based on the data we have right now.”
Watch for more: What the latest CPI data means for the Federal Reserve & rate hikes
Current price of silver
The opening price of silver futures on Thursday, August 13, 2026, was 0.4% lower compared to Wednesday’s closing price. Here’s how today’s opening silver price has changed versus last week, month, and year:
One week ago: +5.7%
One month ago: +11.1%
One year ago: +70.2%
For context, silver’s year-over-year growth was 173.3% on May 14.
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Price of silver chart
Whether you’re tracking the price of silver since last month or last year, the price-of-silver chart below shows the precious metal’s value journey so far this year.
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Source: finance.yahoo.com
