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This week in precious metals was all about the US Treasury Bond auctions.
Would the Chinese and the Russians walk their recent negative talk? Would foreign buyers boycott the offering, holding out for higher rates? And would Ben Bernanke have to step in as a buyer of last resort?
Well, we got our answer…
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090611-714319.html
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The trading range for the HUI Gold Bugs Stock Index has finally broken out of it’s horizontal trading range:

And formed an upward bias, with a series of higher highs and higher lows:

Gold stocks are now also leading gold, as the HUI:Gold ratio has broken out of it’s trading range and the stocks are once again [...]

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Given all the noise and rumors about new, additional IMF gold sales yesterday, I thought it would be a good time to take an updated look at trading charts for both Gold and the HUI Gold Bugs Index.
For an update on the final communique of the G-20 and the IMF, please see my preceding [...]

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As a “generational perfect storm” brews on the horizon for gold & gold stocks, the HUI Gold Bugs Index is basing within a rather defined trading range.
After doubling off the October and November lows, the HUI gold stock index has now found support at earlier resistance levels near HUI 248, and resistance from consistent profit [...]

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One of the fascinating things about gold, is that it wears many faces…
It can trade as a commodity.
It can trade as a currency.
It can trade as a flight to safety haven.
And it can trade as the momentum flav’ Du Jour.
It can trade either positively, or negatively correlated to the US Dollar and/or Oil and commodities.
And [...]

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