Silver drops despite steady market tone elsewhere |

Silver drops despite steady market tone elsewhere

A man under an umbrella walks past an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, May 20, 2013. Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.4 percent to 15,352.84 as evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

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Silver drops des... A man under an umbrella walks past an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, May 20, 2013. Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.4 percent to 15,352.84 as evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
More controversy... Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, right, a founder and co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party, speaks to journalists in Osaka, Japan, Thursday, May 16, 2013. The emerging Japanese nationalist political party became embroiled in more controversy Friday when a party lawmaker accused ethnic Koreans of involvement in prostitution. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
Myanmar leader f... Myanmar political prisoners who were released from Insein prison walk away from the facility Friday, May 17, 2013 in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar’s President Thein Sein pardoned political prisoners Friday, just ahead of a state visit to the United States, maintaining the momentum of warming ties between the countries. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
Pakistan's forme... Pakistanis chant slogans during a protest to condemn the killing of Zohra Shahid, a senior member of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in Sindh, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Police said gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed Shahid outside her home on Saturday, May 18, 2013, in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
At least 12 dead... In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers work at the site where a blast ripped through an explosives manufacturing plant in Caofan Township of Zhangqiu City, east China's Shandong Province, Monday, May 20, 2013. Some people were killed and about 20 are missing after the accident. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Xu Suhui) NO SALES
Chinese, Indian ... Chinese Premier Li Keqiang waves at the media in front of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his ceremonial reception at the Indian President's palace in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 20, 2013. Li said Monday he chose India for his first foreign visit because cooperation between the world's two most populous nations is crucial to world stability and economic growth. He was visiting India just weeks after the two nations resolved a tense standoff between their troops over the disputed Himalayan border between their two countries. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
Cyclone Mahasen ... Internally displaced Rohingya people load rickshaws with children and belongings to leave their camp in Sittwe, northwestern Rakhine State, Myanmar, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Tens of thousands of displaced Rohingya people live in the plastic-roofed tents and huts made of reeds, and they distrust nearly any order from a government that barely acknowledges they exist. Even as rain and wind from the edges of Cyclone Mahasen began to pelt the coast near the city on Thursday morning, most people camped there appeared to be staying put. Some, however, were taking down their tents and hauling their belongings away in cycle-rickshaws, or carrying them in bags balanced on their heads. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)