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The good news is health conscious consumers are avoiding McDonald's. The bad news is McDonald's net income is dropping worldwide (down 33% Q1/14 to Q1/15). The cRaZy news is that on this earnings report, McDonald's stock rose 3% today.

Even on McDonald's rotten earnings, stocks rose. Dow added 88.68 points as it swings up and down with all the deep meaning of one of those bobbing head dogs in your back car window. Ended up 0.49% at 18,038.27. S&P500 added 10.67 (0.51) to 2,107.96. cRaZy.

Could stocks break out here and move to a new high? Well, they keep stalling at the upper boundary of trading channel/formation, but they are above their 20 & 50 day moving averages -- until they again fall out of bed.

Today saw a little larger move from the Dow in Gold. Up 1.76% to G$314.21 gold dollars (15.20 troy ounces). Dow in silver climbed 1.9% to S$1,479.84 silver dollars (1,144.56 troy ounces).

Okay, so I'm biting nails -- fingernails -- as the DiS approaches that top gator jaw, tomorrow about S$1,491.39 (1,153.5 oz). I told y'all these broadening tops will make you pull out you hair in tufts & handfuls.

US dollar index closed lower, down 7 basis points or 0.07% at 98.14, but not as low as its lowest, 97.61, now under the 20 DMA. Makes that breakout through the downtrend that peaked at 100.27 on 13 March look even more bailed now than it did before. However, Dollar Index must break 96.50 to fall past recent lows. Gravity is in charge.

Nobody's in charge at the euro. It lost 0.08% to $1.0725. Too puny & peakéd to lift a leg over its 20 DMA. Sick.

Watching the yen is as thrilling as watching a clock pendulum: up, down, up, down, in the identical range since February. Fell 0.175 today to 83.35. Headed sideways.

Silver & gold are trying to knock out that floor underneath. Gold slipped $16.00 (1.3%) to $1,186.90 while silver dropped 21.1 cents to 1579.1c.

The Gold/Silver ratio closed Comex at 75.163, slightly lower than yesterday's 75.172, but there's more there than those bald numbers. Ratio hit a high at 76.25, punched into resistance, then closed lower than yesterday, first half of a key reversal. Second half (a lower close) must follow tomorrow.

Gold's $1,185 low today nearly matched the 14 April low at $1,183.50. That nearly touches the 2-standard deviation bottom Bollinger band and, just below, the downtrend line from the October 2012 high. Wait, did I forget to tell y'all that since April opened gold has been above that line? Sorry. But I might be forgiven because it also traded above that line in January, but couldn't stay there.

If gold faints here it will fall to $1,165. I expect support there to hold. For one reason, because gold has lately acted as if selling is about exhausted.

Silver's low came at 1565c, and silver must hold here or retreat to 1525 - 1500c. Silver's at its 2-sigma Bollinger band, at support from the December low, at the peak of a falling wedge -- if it can't stop here, it can't stop. http://scharts.co/1DPm0RR

On 22 April 1659 Lord Protector Cromwell disbanded the English parliament, bringing the revolution full circle from monarchical dictator to common dictator. It's the life cycle of revolutions.

On 22 April 1792 President George Washington proclaimed US neutrality in the war in Europe. Needless to say, what we've had the last, oh, 155 years or so ain't been Washington.

Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt —
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— Franklin Sanders, The Moneychanger

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22-Apr-15 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,186.90 -16.00 -1.33%
Silver, $/oz 15.79 -0.21 -1.32%
Gold/Silver Ratio 75.163 -0.009 -0.01%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0133 0.0000 0.01%
Platinum 1,129.70 -22.10 -1.92%
Palladium 755.60 -18.65 -2.41%
S&P 500 2,107.96 10.67 0.51%
Dow 18,038.27 88.68 0.49%
Dow in GOLD $s 314.17 5.70 1.85%
Dow in GOLD oz 15.20 0.28 1.85%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,142.31 20.60 1.84%
US Dollar Index 95.00 0.04 0.04%
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French 20 franc 0.19 223.14 227.14 1,216.62
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US 40% silver 1/2s 0.30 4,453.03 4,603.03 15.60
100 oz .999 bar 100.00 1,564.50 1,614.50 16.15
10 oz .999 bar 10.00 156.45 161.95 16.20
1 oz .999 round 1.00 15.85 16.35 16.35
Am Eagle, 200 oz Min 1.00 17.25 18.10 18.10
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PLATINUM Fine Tr.Oz. BID ASK $/oz
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