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This close sat 67.84% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
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This page is a historical record of the silver price in 8 January 2019, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Silver closed at $15.63 per troy ounce on 8 January 2019, down $0.043 (0.27%) from the previous close of $15.67.
This close extended a run of 3 consecutive sessions of losses. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
This close sat 67.84% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $17.06, making this a -8.43% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $15.63 per troy ounce on 8 January 2019. That is $0.04 lower than the previous close of $15.67, a move of -0.27%.
The silver price fell on 8 January 2019, losing $0.04 (0.27%) against the previous session's close of $15.67.
At $15.63 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.50 on 8 January 2019. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 82.1 on 8 January 2019, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 82.1 ounces of silver.
A week before 8 January 2019, silver was around $16.02 per troy ounce, so the close of $15.63 is a loss of 2.5% over the week.
A month before 8 January 2019, silver was around $14.57 per troy ounce, so the close of $15.63 is a gain of 7.2% over the month.
This close was session 3 of a consecutive run of losses. A run is counted by closes, so an intraday reversal that still closed in the same direction does not break it.
It closed 67.84% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.