Gold continues to threaten to push through the $1,680 resistance area…as of 7:30 am Pacific, the yellow metal is up $18 an ounce at $1,681…it climbed as high as $1,693 overnight…Silver has advanced 42 cents and is trading at $32.56…Copper has jumped a dime to $3.40…Crude Oil is off 16 cents at $85.65 while the U.S. Dollar Index has hit a three-week low and is currently down three-quarters of a point at 76.94…
A bill that aims to punish Beijing for holding down its currency passed the U.S. Senate yesterday despite a warning from China that the legislation could plunge the global economy into a 1930s-like depression…the legislation passed the Democrat-led Senate with a comfortable 63-35 majority, with several Republican senators also supporting the bill…the vote could set up a tussle with the House of Representatives, whose Republican leaders have called the bill “dangerous” and so far have refused to schedule a vote on it…
Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain, who is gaining in the polls, is making the most sense of any presidential candidate at the moment on a range of issues and taxes in particular…Cain wants to scrap the existing convoluted U.S. tax code and replace it with a “9-9-9” system…at its core, the Cain plan would slap a 9% flat tax – no loopholes, no exceptions – on businesses, individuals and sales…
There is sure to be more of this coming – the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, city council passed a resolution last night authorizing a Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing…the Pennsylvania state capital has been plagued with cash flow problems and faces a $300 million debt crisis due in part to a project to revamp its incinerator…
The CDNX keeps charging higher…as of 7:30 am Pacific, the Index is up another 26 points at 1537 while the TSX and Dow are posting triple-digit gains…the CDNX has jumped 231 points or almost 18% over just 6 sessions but don’t interpret that as the start of a new bull phase…the CDNX is facing some major technical headwinds and volume on this move over the last week has not been impressive…a “capitulation” moment hasn’t even occurred with this market yet…this has been a rally out of extremely oversold conditions…in terms of how much higher the Index could go, first it needs to convincingly push thru resistance right around where it is now…below is a chart from John we posted last week which shows the 1530 area as the first major hurdle the Index faces…
Richmont Mines (RIC, TSX) is up another 51 cents to $10.92 as of 7:30 am Pacific…Visible Gold Mines (VGD, TSX-V) has touched 30 cents for the first time in 10 trading sessions…VGD is currently up a penny-and-a-half at 30 cents…Currie Rose Resources (CUI, TSX-V) closed up half a penny yesterday at 10.5 cents on positive drill results reported by Australian-traded Liontown Resources which is earning an interest in CUI’s Jubilee Reef Project in Tanzania (Liontown can earn as much as a 75% interest by completing a feasibility study)…results are also pending from CUI’s drilling at Mabale Hills…Currie Rose should definitely benefit from any continued strength in the CDNX…so too should Adventure Gold (AGE, TSX-V) and Gold Bullion Development (GBB, TSX-V)…
What your word on Cadilac Mining ? ?
Comment by peter vasko — October 12, 2011 @ 7:52 am
I like bullmarketrun, but, can we get a little more positive? you guys were so postitive around the 2100 level that we can get to the 2700 level, now, it’s all negative?
Comment by STEVEN — October 12, 2011 @ 8:53 am
Bear market as it may be, keep your eye on CEV. Yes, that rhymes.
Comment by dave — October 12, 2011 @ 9:04 am
Did the Dow capitulate already?
Comment by STEVEN — October 12, 2011 @ 10:41 am
Never mind Herman Cain. The only candidate, republican or democrat, who has any integrity is Ron Paul. He is the only one who understands what sound money is and how central banking and big government is turning the middle class into debt slaves. The rest of these guys are in the pocket of corporate interests and keep pumping the same keynesian nonsense that got us in this mess in the first place. A return to sound money is the only way out of this paper money mess.
Comment by Patrick — October 12, 2011 @ 12:51 pm