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Monday, 22 January a.d. 2018 Browse the commentary archive

If I'uz runnin' that yankee gummit, I'd stay right shy of them gummint shutdowns. Might be they shut the gummint down a few days, and ever'body might look around and say, "Wait a minute. Things are going jes fine. What do we need that blamed gummint for anyway?"

Stocks took news the government would not be shutting down as last half of the day good news Dow shot up 142.88 (0.5%) to a new all time high at 26,214.60. Nor did the S&P500 lag, but soared even higher, up 22.67 (0.81%) to 2,832.97. Forgive me, I repeat myself, but this is a bubble & there's no naming where it will stop. Look at the Dow Industrials' chart, http://schrts.co/Q6KUW0

Musing thereupon, I looked at the Dow in Gold chart, http://schrts.co/VWT2T3 From that post-2011 correction high at 19.73 oz on 12 December (same day gold price-bottomed) the Dow in Gold plunged to the 50 day moving average at 18.86, then began to rally again. At 19.68 oz today, it has almost made a double high with that December high. If it doesn't stop here, it will likely climb to 20.67 oz where it would complete a 38.2% correction of the 1999-2011 rise.

After closing Friday at 90.48, the dollar index fell out of bed again today. Lost 34 basis points (0.45) to close at 90.14. Making new lows lately and chart here, http://schrts.co/GakPya suggests it will make lower lows still. A rise above 91 would temporarily gainsay that.

Ten year T-note yield right here, http://schrts.co/vUJO4G shows that interest rates are still rising. It made a fresh 3 year high today. Rising rates are wounding the US 30 Year T-bond, http://schrts.co/IoR0Nw and ain't helping junk bonds, http://schrts.co/V3v1oe

CBOE Bitcoin Futures lost $1,05.00 (9%) to $10,170.00. Coindesk.com currently shows Bitcoin down $1,140.04 or 9.9% to $10,382.82. Maybe it will stage a rally, but as is it has traded below its December low to create a series of lower lows and lower highs. Chart's here, http://schrts.co/nzMqsw

Comex gold backed off $1,000 to $1,330.90 while Silver shaved off 4.4¢ to 1693.1¢.

Nothing in the sideways travel on the five day charts suggests that silver and gold are preparing to rise. In fact, the longer anything hovers, the more likely it is to drop. Gravity never takes a holiday.

Chart shows gold trampling on the uptrend line and today closing beneath it, http://schrts.co/p163Wu That's not immediately fatal, but doesn't promise happy days ahead, either. Gold must labor & travail to get through that $1,360 resistance above.

Silver has done trampled clean through the uptrend line and is sliding along its 200 day moving average. Look for yourself, http://schrts.co/o96FnV Can't see why it wouldn't drop toward that 50 DMA about 1670¢, given that it can't stay over 1700¢ like a man. Understand, a silver and gold correction here would STRENGTHEN them, and set the platform of the next leg up.

Here in Tennessee we just ain't set up for terribly cold weather. Last Tuesday night about 10 I got in my car and it was seven degrees. When it gets cold like that you can hear pipes bursting all over town. And my three Hereford sows were miserable. Laid up someplace in the holler in a pig pile to keep warm, they wouldn't even come up to eat when I called. I don't know how they survive, but they do. They were there right on time this morning, though. Weather flip-flopped and was nearly 60 degrees yesterday, warm and rainy today. I reckon its that global warming that's causing all these deep freezes. Ain't that right, Al Gore? (I hate to say it, but I ain't just rip-roaring' proud of everybody who comes from Tennessee.)

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19-Jan-18 Price Change % Change
Gold, $/oz 1,331.90 5.90 0.44%
Silver, $/oz 16.98 0.08 0.49%
Gold/Silver Ratio 78.462 -0.032 -0.04%
Silver/Gold Ratio 0.0127 0.0000 0.04%
Platinum 1,016.20 -21.90 -2.11%
Palladium 1,101.05 -6.10 -0.55%
S&P 500 2,810.30 12.27 0.44%
Dow 26,071.72 53.91 0.21%
Dow in GOLD $s 404.65 -0.96 -0.24%
Dow in GOLD oz 19.57 -0.05 -0.24%
Dow in SILVER oz 1,535.89 -4.26 -0.28%
US Dollar Index 90.48 0.18 0.20%
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Am Eagle, 200 oz Min 1.00 18.21 18.96 18.96
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