Gold, silver see strong rallies after tamer U.S. inflation report

- Gold and silver prices are sharply up, nearer their daily highs and hit three-week peaks Wednesday, in the aftermath of a morning U.S. inflation report that came in a bit tamer than market expectations.August gold was last up $24.60 at $1,961.70 and September silver was up $1.014 at $24.295.

The U.S. dollar index sold off sharply, stock indexes rallied and U.S. Treasury yields dropped following the upbeat CPI data. Technically, August gold futures prices hit a three-week high today. Bulls and bears are back on a level overall near-term technical playing field but the bulls have momentum. A nine-week-old downtrend on the daily bar chart has been negated. Bulls' next upside price objective is to produce a close above solid resistance at $2,000.00. Bears' next near-term downside price objective is pushing futures prices below solid technical support at the June low of $1,900.60.

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