Y'all don't forget: A Greek Debt Deal is Near. With astonishing candor Fed Head Ben Bernancubus told the senate budget committee today that the much-touted 8.3% unemployment rate from January UNDERstates weakness in the US labor market. Something's up. Bernancubus is sounding almost rational -- it's a trick. Or he is sandbagging because he awaits even worse news still. Silver & gold found nothing but support in Bernancubus' remarks, as everything he said implied he will depreciate the dollar much more through inflation. At least, the US dollar index took it that way since it sank a chunky 55.3 basis points (0.71%) to 78.516. That's the bottom of the last 30 days' range. The fall through 78.50 will only confirm the down-ness of a trend already turned down, and 'twill accelerate it. Yeah, buddy! That Greek debt deal is just roaring down the tracks. The euro market thinks so, I reckon, because the euro rose today to 1.3258, up 0.97% & above 1.3200 resistance. Still, if I owned euros (and I don't, and won't, unless I have to travel there) & the deal did go thru, I would sell them on the NEWS tomorrow that a deal has been struck. Forget not the proverb, "Buy the rumor, sell the news." Appears that part of what's been driving up the yen was money looking for a refuge for the euro, since the yen fell 0.31% today to 130.25c/Y100 (Y76.78/US$1). Yen pierced but did not close below its 20 DMA (130.16). The yen has a fine future at a lower level. STOCKS struggle yet with that 12,875 resistance. Dow gained 43.63 (0.34%) to 12,888.76 and the S&P500 rose 2.96 (0.22%) to 1,347.29 Are stocks topping or consolidating? Well, they feed off inflation & the Bernancubus today promised more of that -- although stocks feeding off inflation is like the eucalyptus-obligate koala bear eating chocolate cake & expecting to thrive. End thereof will be painful & messy, & fraught with indigestion & enthusiastic puking. If stocks penetrate that 12,875, say, by 2% (13,132.5) they will stretch their legs & run to the 2007 top. I don't expect that, but do expect their strength will wane & vanish by end of the first quarter, second at latest. Gold rolled back all its losses since last Friday, & banged on $1,750 resistance as well with a $1,749.71 high. Rose $23.60 to $1,746.40 on Comex. This is good and not so good. It leaves yesterday looking like a bottom at $1,710 (today's low), & a leap up off that bottom through two resistance levels. Think of it this way. Gold bottomed on 29 December at 1523.90 (intraday), and commenced an uptrend. If you draw an uptrend line from 29 December across the bottoms, you'll see that today's low merely touched the uptrend line, nothing more. Trend remains intact. More, gold made a new low for the move today, then closed higher than the day before -- first half of a key reversal. If gold closes higher tomorrow, it was a key reversal & gold has resumed climbing. All that also almost works for silver, but not quite. Silver rose 44.3c today to shut the doors at Comex on 3416.5c. But silver did penetrate its uptrend line, by a little. Given that silver often does that, then refuses to follow through, we can chalk that up to silver's greater volatility. Silver has reached the threshold of its crucial 300 day moving average (3453c). Clear that hurdle, & silver will run for the finish line. Momentum already points up, with silver above its 50 and 20 DMAs. Turning all that the other way round, a failure at 3450c would hurt silver badly, & send it back toward 3100c to build a broader, firmer foundation. Once again, silver's line in the sand is 3300c. Last three days have been merely a very short-term correction for metals. Seems they want to climb higher. Don't get caught standing in their way. On 7 February 1812 an earthquake of 8.2 magnitude occurred at New Madrid, Missouri. 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