Even though the overnight declines in gold and silver are modest, the rally in the dollar index is also small leaving currency-related selling in gold and silver somewhat limited early on.

While the decline in gold yesterday was not severe, the market did make a lower low and was pressured by a significant jump in US interest rates.

Fortunately for the bull camp, offsetting the jump in rates was off-balance US dollar action...[MORE]

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