Like the gold market the silver market managed an early morning rally that seemed to top out shortly before 7:30 central time. In fact, just ahead of mid session the December silver futures contract was as much as 47 cents an ounce below the early morning highs. Seeing the early stock market rally failing to hold up probably prompted some long profit-taking in the silver market into mid session. However just ahead of mid session it should be noted that both copper and platinum prices had managed to hold in positive ground on the day and that in turn probably lent some spillover support to the silver market.