Silver prices briefly tumbled early in Friday’s Asian trading session with futures plunging nearly 10%, likely due to a trading error, before quickly reversing most of that decline. There have been numerous instances in recent years of a buy or sell order being entered for an asset—be it stock, commodity or bond—at a wrong price, resulting in subsequent trades reacting to that incorrect entry. The end result is typically brief...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 07, 2017 02:48 UTC