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Weekly Commentary
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Here's the weekly scorecard:
  26-Apr-13 3-May-13 Change % Change
Silver, cents/oz. 2,375.80 2,397.50 21.70 0.9
Gold, dollars/oz. 1,453.60 1,464.30 10.70 0.7
Gold/silver ratio 61.184 61.076 -0.110 -0.2
Silver/gold ratio 0.0163 0.0164 0.0000 0.2
Dow in Gold Dollars (DIG$) 209.23 211.39 2.16 1.0
Dow in gold ounces 10.12 10.23 0.10 1.0
Dow in Silver ounces 619.27 624.57 5.30 0.9
Dow Industrials 14,712.55 14,973.96 261.41 1.8
S&P500 1,582.24 1,614.38 32.14 2.0
US dollar index 82.50 82.11 -0.40 -0.5
Platinum 1,475.20 1,501.70 26.50 1.8
Palladium 680.85 692.20 11.35 1.7

Stocks finished the week with a bag, up about 2%. US dollar index slumped, may have failed. Gold and silver held their own, even advanced a little.

After stalling earlier in the week, stocks surged today to new all time highs. Dow Industrials gobbled up 142.38 points (0.96%) to 14,973.96. S&P500 bounded over 1,600 and vaulted 16.79 (1.05%) to 1,614.38. I reckon the Jubilee has arrived, & the fried chickens will just fly right up to your mouth and wait to be eaten. Why, if Big Ben keeps on a-printing that money, we will finally become as prosperous as Zimbabwe. We already have a ruler almost as charismatic & clever as Robert Mugabe.

I believe I mentioned to y'all some time ago that the Dow might reach 15,000, but I didn't want to ride that nag because it would hurt too much when he drops dead underneath you.

The Dow in Gold & Dow in Silver pose riddles for us today. Both remain in downtrends from their tops on 15 April, but silver is trying to break down today & gold to break up. However, both remain above their 20 day moving averages (603.2 oz for silver & 10.11 oz for gold).

Dow/Gold skipped 1.19% to 10.23 oz (G$211.47 gold dollars). Dow/Silver lost 0.2% (0.15 oz) to wind up at 623.55 oz. When both close below those 20 DMAs, I'll have a lot more confidence that silver & gold have finished their slides.

If I had to trade currencies for a living, I believe I'd just write 'em a check for all my money, give it to 'em, & go buy me a tin bill and peck dirt with the chickens. It would wear a lot less on your nerves, & your soul.

Take the yen. It had a little uptrend going this week, but fell out of bed the last two days & closed today below its 20 DMA (101.46). Lost 1.06% today & closed at 100.98 cents/Y100. Those Japanese NGM are really determined to destroy their economy.

Then there is the euro, Geep of currencies. It dropped 0.92% yesterday & closed below its 20 DMA, thanks to Mario Dragnet announcing that the ECB might take interest rates below zero. Today somebody in the euro market was gobbling uppers, & it rose 0.44% to $1.3117.

Don't forget the US dollar index. It has made a rounded formation that wants to be a top one day, & a consolidation the next. Today it fell 9.8 basis points, 0.13%, to 82.106. This week it fell through support at 81.78, all the way to 81.37, yet still came back to close above 82 today. You'd have to be mad-skunk crazy to bet on that.

Dollar index is closing in on its 200 DMA (81.01). If it closes below that, case for a lower dollar will be pretty well clinched.

Silver & gold gainsaid one another today, silver up and gold down. Silver scratched out an 18.5 cent rise to close at 2397.5. That's unconvincing, but there's something convincing there, too, that I'll mention shortly. Gold gave back $3.40 to $1,464.30.

The convincing part came in silver's range today, knocking on the top with a 24.35 high. Gold made a new high today for the move from the $1,321.50 low, namely, $1,487.10.

Gold is blocked at the $1,485 level. Silver can't pass 2450c & stay there. Both have established uptrends off the 15 April lows. Still, most everybody in the universe is waiting to see whether they will make new lows confirming those made 15 April.

Who knows, maybe they're all wrong? You would know that if gold could close above L$1,550 and silver above $27.50, the prices where they broke down. Unless they do that, I am inclined to wait for that one last push down.

I will say it until y'all are sick of it, and apologize not: Silver & gold bull markets have NOT ended. What lies ahead will be better, stronger, flashier than anything that's happened so far.

On 3 May 1926 US Marines landed in Nicaragua & stayed until 1933. Well, actually they had been there since 1912, except for nine months beginning in 1925. Apparently this was to set up personalities and events for the later civil war in Nicaragua from 1972 - 1979.

I went to Nicaragua in 1989, but not with the Marines. I remember we had to change US$60 when we flew in, and got an inch high stack of 20 Córdoba notes overprinted "20,000", 1.2 million Córdobas. You could see the old bank notes blowing in the streets, too worthless for anybody to pick them up. When I asked our guide why so many houses had stacks of concrete blocks in the front yard, he said, "Nicaraguan savings account." In answer to my queries, he explained that those people eventually wanted to expand their homes, but didn't have enough money. So whenever they had a little extra, they bought more concrete blocks because the price was always rising. Best investment a homeowner could make. Even with beer at 25 cents US a bottle, I couldn't spent $60 in two weeks there, the country was so poor and ravaged by war. Good people, lousy government.

Y'all enjoy your weekend!

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3-May-13 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,464.30 -3.40 -0.2
Silver, $/oz 23.98 0.19 0.8
Gold/Silver Ratio 61.076 -0.147 -0.2
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0164 0.0001 0.8
Platinum 1,501.70 1.00 0.1
Palladium 692.20 0.00 0.0
S&P 500 1,614.38 16.79 1.1
Dow 14,973.96 142.38 1.0
Dow in GOLD $s 211.39 2.52 1.2
Dow in GOLD oz 10.23 0.12 1.2
Dow in SILVER oz 624.57 1.13 0.2
US Dollar Index 82.11 -0.10 -0.1
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