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Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan

Dear CIGAs,

Price capping near the $1250 level has been effective at thwarting the continued rise in gold and has resulted in new short selling by locals looking to capitalize on the backstopping of the bullion bank sell programs.

I was hoping to see the longs hold steady and not run but that

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Lumber and Copper: Measures Of True Overall Economic Strength

Dear CIGAs,

It doesn’t look as if the Lumber market was particularly impressed with the headline Housing Starts number – it rather appears it is focused on the Permits number instead.

As mentioned before – two of the best indicators for the overall strength or weakness in the economy are the Lumber and the

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In The News Today

Dear CIGAs,

The euro trading level is on the left hand side of www.jsmineset.com. The present bids on the euro have gone from $1.29, to $1.26 and now $1.2150.

Below $1.2150, and Volcker looks right.

The German Finance Ministry today banned the use of naked CDSs as well as share and certain bond short

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Jim’s Mailbox

Break down of Commercial Bank Credit CIGA Eric

The real economy continues to stagnate. This is reflected by anemic loan growth of the influence business & commercial and real estate loan sectors. These two sectors represent over 50% of total bank credit within the US. Yet, despite this the lackluster participation within critical sectors,

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In The News Today

Thoughts For The Day

The euro below $1.20 would strongly suggest Chairman Volcker is right on the subject. The euro below $1.10 would confirm that Volcker is correct.

Presently there is key support at $1.2150.

The euro in Asia is present selling off its high by 50 points.

Volcker Sees Euro ‘Disintegration’ Risk From

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Today’s Action In Gold

Dear CIGAs,

Tomorrow is the first day Greece receives a tranche of emergency funding which of course caused some euro short covering from below 1.2236 to the present 1.2394. Recall I gave you the 121 1/2 to 122 1/2 as support under the break of 126.

The present relationship, although short term, is that

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Jim’s Mailbox

Dear Jim,

Why was silver so weak today?

Regards, CIGA Green Hornet

Dear Green Hornet,

Silver was up strongly on the discussions of JP Morgan who we were informed had a Department of Justice examination of their activities in silver. This was reported as fact.

The reports were 50% correct in that JP Morgan

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Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan

Dear CIGAs,

The big story is once again the collapse in the Euro – it actually registered some prints BELOW the worst levels seen back in late 2008 at the height of the credit crisis inception here in the US. It looks to me like the only ones seeing “Shock and Awe” are the

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