By Myra P. Saefong, MarketWatch

Silver’s a severely undervalued ‘investment opportunity of a lifetime’

TOKYO (MarketWatch) — Silver’s not so much a poor man’s gold anymore and investors may soon realize that the white metal’s the real treasure.

True, at $17 per ounce, silver is cheap — trading around 60 times less than gold’s record price of more than $1,100. But year to date, it’s climbed 52% in value compared with gold’s rise of around 25%, according to data from FactSet Research.

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