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Weekend brought one score FOR the Worldwide Revulsion, and one AGAINST. Italian voters turned down Establishment politician Matteo Renzi's constitutional makeover but in Austria voters elected a center-left (read: communist with one leg shorter than the other)) candidate over the anti-immigration Freedom Party candidate.

Take away? The previously unbeatable Establishment lost.

In Europe it was a day of proving out "sell the rumor, buy the news" as somebody bought the euro, which rose 0.93% to $1.0764. Yen fell, though, 0.23% to 87.91. US dollar reeled back from a strong blow, losing 70 basis points (0.69%) to 100.17. Chart's here, and says it all, http://schrts.co/OkJ5UT

Today when the dollar cracked 101, it sank plumb through the 20 DMA. A little internal support lies at the old channel line, now about 99.75, but the gaps between support below that are large. I am not saying the dollar's intermediate rally is broken because there's not enough evidence yet. This is only a correction of the Trump rally. Have to watch to see the outcome.

Dow Industrials made another new high today at 19,216.24, up 45.82 (0.24%). S&P500 rose even more, 0.58%, but didn't nearabout make a new high. Ended up 12.76 at 2,204.71.

I don't mind putting my hand over my mouth and admitting I have no clue what is going on, other than rabid old bull enthusiasm.

Friday both silver & gold rose well, gold up 0.7% ($8.20) & silver higher by 2% (32.6¢). A couple of facts are gainsaying further big losses in metals.

First, gold has had abundant opportunities to crash further, but refused the fun. Overnight it fell to $1,156.10, but bounced back as high as $1,187.70. Finished Comex at $1,174.00, down $1.10. Silver scraped bottom at 1647¢ but rebounded to 1697.5¢ and closed Comex up 7.1¢ at 1682.4¢. Look at the gold chart, http://schrts.co/F7TyRw

RSI remains oversold, while the MACD is threatening to turn up. It's positive that it won't break lower than $1,160, but positive don't butter no biscuits. Still needs to climb over $1,200.

Silver's chart, on the other hand, looks different, http://schrts.co/o96FnV

The Relative Strength Index has never reached the gold's oversoldness during this correction, but the MACD has already turned up, as has the rate of change. More, silver has held on and continued to gain, forming a rounding bottom pattern. Today it nearly touched the 20 day moving average overhead. A close above 1700¢ would start building my confidence, & a close above 1725¢ would makeit a raging bonfire.

So silver keeps on gainsaying gold's lower ranges by steadily rising. That contradiction works in the metals' favor.

We all had a rollickin' good time with the Smiths in Erin, but Jim wasn't at all happy with the bratwurst we made. Too crumbly, cause it needed about half again as much pork fat our recipe called for. And although I have enthusiastically eaten bratwurst on two continents, I never realized they were made out of pork AND beef.

The sourdough bread worked like a champ, too. We had to leave Saturday before it was baked, but Pam sent us pictures that made me drool. I am gluten intolerant but can eat a limited amount of sourdough bread, made from organic wheat, with no ill effects at all. That's why Susan was learning to make it: for me, bless her heart.

I'm just not mean enough to tell y'all more about the lamb roast Jim cooked to pink perfection over lump charcoal on his Big Green Egg. I'd be tempting y'all to envy. And then there were Pam's pan fried green beans. Naw, I'm not saying another word.

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

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5-Dec-16 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,174.00 -1.10 -0.09%
Silver, $/oz 16.82 0.07 0.42%
Gold/Silver Ratio 69.781 -0.361 -0.52%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0143 0.0001 0.52%
Platinum 937.00 6.00 0.64%
Palladium 745.95 1.15 0.15%
S&P 500 2,204.71 12.76 0.58%
Dow 19,216.24 45.82 0.24%
Dow in GOLD $s 338.36 1.12 0.33%
Dow in GOLD oz 16.37 0.05 0.33%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,142.19 -2.11 -0.18%
US Dollar Index 100.17 -0.70 -0.69%
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