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Y'all have mercy on me today. I have to attend a show-off home schooling event for some of my grandchildren, & my dear wife will flay me if I'm late.

Here are the highlights. Stocks continued to deteriorate, although the closes didn't show the full view of it. Closes were near yesterdays, but the lows were a lot lower, so the range was much lower than yesterdays. Whoa! S&P500 broke DOWN out of that even-sided triangle we've been watching. Dow lost 4.76 (0.03%) to 16,264.23 while the S&P500 slid 3.52 (0.19%) to 1,849.04. Should follow through lower & lower.

US dollar index finally stood up and gained a whole 16 basis points (0.2%) to 80.28. This leaves the chart hopeful, but nothing to brag about. Euro looks like it ate a pound of bad meat, dropped 0.32% today to $1.3741, not far from turning very negative by falling below its 50 DMA ($1.3715). Yen lost 0.14% to 97.87 c/Y100, still treading water.

Gold sank $8.70 to $1,294.70 and silver lost 6.9 cents to 1969.0c. Disaster? Not quite. Today's range with a 1958c low touched the downtrend line form the April 2013 high, same line silver broke through skyward in April. This constitutes a kiss back to breakout, and should hold -- should.

Gold's low at $1,291.20 brought it nearly to that 50% correction at $1,287, which is the neckline of the upside down Head & Shoulders gold broke through in February. Gold has now tangled its feet in the 50 DMA ($1,303.8) & 200 DMA ($1,299.41). Today's trading pretty much hit my targets for this decline. Now we might from here get a rally, then one more touch back to these levels.

Of course, I will be shown once again to be no more'n a nacheral born fool from Tennessee should silver & gold drop sharply. Fool or not, I don't see that on the chart.

27 March 1863 was appointed by President Jefferson Davis to be a day of prayer and fasting. Merely to state such a thing reveals the unlikelihood of such an appointment today.

On 27 March 1814 at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Alabama Tennessee General Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks of the Creek tribe.

Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt —
Silver and gold must be bought.

— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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27-Mar-14 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,294.70 -8.70 -0.67%
Silver, $/oz 19.69 -0.07 -0.35%
Gold/Silver Ratio 65.754 -0.211 -0.32%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0152 0.0000 0.32%
Platinum 1,397.20 -9.30 -0.66%
Palladium 761.00 -20.15 -2.58%
S&P 500 1,849.04 -3.52 -0.19%
Dow 16,264.23 -4.76 -0.03%
Dow in GOLD $s 259.68 1.66 0.64%
Dow in GOLD oz 12.56 0.08 0.64%
Dow in SILVER oz 826.01 2.64 0.32%
US Dollar Index 80.11 0.03 0.04%
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GOLD Fine Tr.Oz. BID ASK $/oz
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British sovereign 0.24 306.37 311.12 1,321.67
French 20 franc 0.19 242.99 246.03 1,317.78
Krugerrand 1.00 1,306.01 1,316.01 1,316.01
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SILVER Fine Tr.Oz. BID ASK $/oz
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VG+ Peace dollar 0.77 22.25 23.75 31.05
90% silver coin bags 0.72 14,861.28 15,111.28 21.13
US 40% silver 1/2s 0.30 5,615.33 5,765.33 19.54
100 oz .999 bar 100.00 1,973.50 2,023.50 20.24
10 oz .999 bar 10.00 197.35 202.35 20.24
1 oz .999 round 1.00 19.79 20.29 20.29
Am Eagle, 200 oz Min 1.00 21.19 22.39 22.39
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PLATINUM Fine Tr.Oz. BID ASK $/oz
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