Highest so far that week
This was the strongest close of the week up to that point.
This page is a historical record of the silver price in 9 April 2018, not the current price.See today's silver price (11 September 2026)
Silver closed at $16.50 per troy ounce on 9 April 2018, up $0.167 (1.02%) from the previous close of $16.33.
This close extended a run of 3 consecutive sessions of gains. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
This was the strongest close of the week up to that point.
This close sat 66.04% below the highest silver close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-04-29.
Twelve months earlier silver traded around $18.13, making this a -9.00% move year on year.
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Silver closed at $16.50 per troy ounce on 9 April 2018. That is $0.17 higher than the previous close of $16.33, a move of 1.02%.
The silver price rose on 9 April 2018, gaining $0.17 (1.02%) against the previous session's close of $16.33.
At $16.50 per troy ounce, one gram of pure silver was worth about $0.53 on 9 April 2018. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 81.0 on 9 April 2018, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 81.0 ounces of silver.
This close was session 3 of a consecutive run of gains. A run is counted by closes, so an intraday reversal that still closed in the same direction does not break it.
It closed 66.04% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-04-29.