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Gold remains in tight range

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Gold rallied back and hard to reach 1687 - facing resistance at the top of the Bollinger band and as shorts covering happened, more buying emerge.

 

By Robert Jillies
Short Term: Gold was initially down by $ 10.00 after the jobless claim data that was widely anticipated as the Fed tied QE with the unemployment rate. The biggest shock came from the negative reading of the Philly Fed Manufacturing and other market indicator shows that the Fed actually prop more liquidity.

Gold rallied back and hard to reach 1687 - facing resistance at the top of the Bollinger band and as shorts covering happened, more buying emerge. Our guesses were for tomorrow is as good as the Chinese GDP numbers. Short term gold powered to 1697 and resisted 1700 and that could either mean more range trading as it consolidate the recent Bull Run. We look for support at 1670 area again. Failing that we see 1665 and 1650.

Medium Term: Note on the 4 hourly chart, prices are currently at the top range and the bull camp are roaring again. It was lifeless until a quick reversal and now it’s testing to break 1700. Our assumption that prices should find support before moving higher was proven. We view that gold is well ...

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Charles Hugh Smith: Why the Innovation Premium Is Diminishing

Charles Hugh Smith: Why the Innovation Premium Is Diminishing | Gold and What Moves it. | Scoop.it

The acceleration of competition as high-tech tools and skills have dispersed throughout the global economy is an under-appreciated trend.


In the late 1980s, Apple famously reaped $1,000 in gross profit on each Macintosh computer sold: Apple was able to charge a very high premium for the innovations the Mac embodied. (Note: this was back when $1,000 was a substantial sum; that is over $2,000 in 2012 dollars.) This ability to reap a substantial premium for innovation is fundamentally what drives the technology marketplace: since competition arises in any high-profit space, the premium for innovation degrades as competitors enter the space. In the good old days, it took years for serious competition to arise. As the bumper sticker crowed, "Windows 95 = Mac 1985." (As I worked with both Mac 1985 and the crash-prone Windows 95, I would say Win95 was still substantially behind the Mac in stability.) The acceleration of competition as high-tech tools and skills have dispersed throughout the global economy is an under-appreciated trend. Apple has earned billions of dollars in profits over the decades as its innovations enabled the ...
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