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In This Issue.

* Currencies sell off and then rally back!

* Greece & private lenders talk again.

* Commodities take off!

* Asians are buying their snow tires.

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* Dollar stays in a tight range

* Global inflation heats up

* Pound increases as BOE predicts another rate increase

* Commodities continue to drift higher

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* Dollar rallies briefly on OBL news.

* Big move down is in Silver.

* Central Bank meetings this week.

* Commodities are top dog again!

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* Euro recovers 2-cents...
* Gold gets trashed!
* Questions on China...
* Counting the deficit correctly...

Good day... And a Thunderin' Thursday to you! The heavy rain is back! Just in time to ruin my first Cardinals game of the year too! Yes, a day game today, and it's raining... UGH! Oh well, time to start the letter... There are a couple of Big things to talk about today that happened yesterday, so let's get set, ready, go!

OK... Front and Center this morning, we have the euro's rise yesterday, and Gold's awful performance... Let's go to the euro's rise first...

The euro did a little magic act yesterday, defying gravity, by rising VS the dollar during the day, while every other currency not called U.S. dollars, Japanese yen, or Chinese renminbi, was getting sold like funnel cakes at a state fair. Does this sound suspicious to you? It did to me... And I told Chris during the day, that it sure looked like European Central Bank (ECB) intervention......

In This Issue..

* Commodity Currencies rebound...
* Gold sees profit taking...
* Canary in a coal mine...
* It's Moving Day!

Good day... And a Happy Friday to one and all! It's Moving Day for us here in the EverBank St. Louis office, as we will pick up our belongings and walk next door, to a larger, space, with some incredible views! We moved into this space 5 years ago, and we've been busting at the seams, with the threads holding on to dear life, for over a year now... So, this move is welcomed. Like I said the other day, in 1999, I sat in an office that we rented from the kind folks at Paylinx, and that was the beginning... From that tiny office to this! WOW!

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In This Issue..

* It's a Risk Off day!

* Commodity Currencies get rocked...

* Audit the Fed Bill moves along...

* Just keep spending money we don't have!

Good day... And a Happy Friday to one and all! A Fantastico Friday in my books, as the people at the Retina Institute told me yesterday that the fluid on my eye was drying up, and almost completely gone. I told them I had not noticed any improvement in vision, and they said, 'at least it hasn't gotten worse!' And for that, I am quite thankful! So... With that news, I head into today, and believe it to be a Fantastico Friday!

Well... In my hours on hours of waiting for the next person to look at my eye yesterday, (I think it was "train the eye doctor day" on Chuck's eye) I kept checking the currencies, and noticed that as the day went on, the non-dollar currencies were stronger, led by the Big Dog, euro... But then late last night, and I mean late last night, I checked them, and those gains had been wiped out...

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In This Issue..

* Currencies bounce back...
* Commodities and Commodity Currencies get hit hard!
* China's recovery a myth?
* Devaluation in the dollar's future?

Good day... And a Terrific Tuesday to you! It's too hot in the hot tub! You can't make me get in the hot tub! Ahhh... When I walk outside and my eye glasses fog up from the heat and humidity, I think of that old Saturday Night skit, with Eddie Murphy playing James Brown!

OK... Well, yesterday we saw the currencies stop the bleeding from the overnight sell off, and although they range traded on the day, the bias was to sell dollars once again. That bias has played through on our Turn Around Tuesday theme, and the currencies are higher today than yesterday, but lower than they were 3-weeks ago week ago. Yes, the month of June has not been kind to the currencies, as some of the euphoria that was going on from March thru May, regarding the global economic recovery is being thought about again, and this time, not with the same rose colored glasses......

* Currencies rally then fall back... * Rate slashers! * Following Japan? Let's hope not! * Canada's woes mount... ** It's All About The Jobs Jamboree... Good day... And a Happy Friday to one and all! A Fantastico Friday! A Jobs Jamboree Friday! Anything else, Chuck? No, I don't think so, I'll stop there... It's all about the Jobs Jamboree today. It's all about finding out just how badly the rot on the labor vine has gotten... The Weekly Initial Jobless Claims, yesterday, remained above 500K per week, which doesn't bode well for next month's data... But first... November's Jobs Jamboree on the docket! The "experts" have forecast a -335K drop in jobs for November... But, your old Pfennig writer believes that this forecast is low. I think it will be closer to -375K... The reason I say that is the employment piece of the ISM report that printed the other day... The employment index of that report showed some real serious rot on the labor vine... I read a report last night, where an economist was attempting to show how the report should read -750K... As bad as -375K is, I don't think the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) would have anything to do with printing a -750K report!...