Gold is only part the way through a new rising leg, silver up 2 cents on the day and green last I checked, although my web access now running at snails pace. Gold bounced off support on Friday.

The US stockmarket is also rising, today on positive manufacturing results, given the weaker dollar. Europe has rising inflation, increasing commodity prices and new issuance of liquidity at over 11% pa, could be gold investing is an option even with no euro interest rate cuts.

Silver stocks seem to be moving with the metal alhtough individually may be suffering their own problems, we are at the end of the time frame for releasing q4 results, although this company has no problem with financial releases. Coeur CDE/CDM has a confirmed break out of a few days ago on strong volume . It looks as though ECU hasnt quite decided which way its going, although the diminishing daily range looks as though selling is drying up which is positive. Any expectations of a further low may just result in a sideways trade