The silver market has had a similar trading pattern as gold this morning with the metal under pressure at the start of the session by the strength in the dollar which tends to reduce silver's appeal as an inflation hedge. Doubts about the strength of the economic recovery after seeing a mixed bag of economic data this week along with a sharp sell off in equities seems to be lowering investor's appetite for riskier assets as the year end approaches and this has undermined silver to some degree. But also like gold, silver found strong chart based support near the low and with fresh buying interest coming in on the early dip, December silver has been lifted by as much as 56 cents off session lows in the morning trade. Spill over strength from the copper market may also be helping silver find some footing.