While overnight outside market action is not definitively bearish for gold and silver, the bear camp has help from a stronger dollar, an uptick in US interest rates, and signs of deflation in China with their CPI declining 0.2%.
Given the pulse-up in US interest rate expectations last week and the slide in gold and silver prices, the presence of positive US data and/or a return to risk-on in equities will likely pressure both markets back toward recent consolidation low support levels.
However, given the tighter relationship between the dollar and precious metal prices (relative to interest rate influences), the action in the dollar is likely to control over the interest rate influences...[MORE]
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