Strong Dollar Keeps Pressure On Metals
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Market manipulation never works,and we are now seeing the start of the negative effects of that. The Fed haslost control of the bond market, which continues to tank, pushing interestrates higher. Their last hope was to suppress the U.S. dollar in hopes ofkeeping global interest rates artificially low. That plan is starting to failas the dollar starts to pick up steam and looks prepared to break out to theupside.
Gold and silver have been inconsolidation for a couple of months and couldn't take advantage when thedollar was on five-year lows. Now that the dollar is starting to rally, themetals are starting to feel the pressure and every rally has been met withsellers. Both gold and silver were able to bounce off support on March 1 andboth rallied hard to resistance and are starting to fail again.
The key levels for gold andsilver are $1,300 and $16, respectively. They both look in danger of failing atthose levels. Today's jobs number will go a long way in determining the nextbig move, but it looks like a test of the lows is in order. At 8:30 EST thismorning when the jobs number is released, look for some wild action and whetheror not gold and silver can hold their support levels.
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