Silver Bear Market Seen Ending

``Silver, the best-performing and most-volatile precious metal of the past year, may rebound from a bear market as investors bet on growth in developing nations and an extended European debt crisis... While silver has swung from losses of 2.8 percent to gains of 104 percent over the past 12 months, exceeding moves in gold, platinum and palladium, it is still on track for its highest- ever annual average. ''