the silver market tried to correlate with the gold market early in the trading session but in the end the sharp downward liquidation in a host of physical commodity markets was too much for the silver bulls to withstand. In fact, with a higher Dollar, sharply lower copper prices and a sharp slide in energy prices, silver was facing a number of outside market negatives. In the end, the silver market acted like a classic physical commodity market facing a severe slowdown of the global economy.