Strong price pressure on gold, silver amid hawkish Fed

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In overnight news, the Bank of Japan confirmed it intervened significantly in the foreign exchange market Monday to support the yen. The key outside markets today see the U.S. dollar index modestly up. Nymex crude oil prices are slightly up and trading around $82.75 a barrel. The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note is fetching 4.634%.

The silver bulls have the overall near-term technical advantage but are fading again. A price uptrend on the daily bar chart has stalled out. Silver bulls' next upside price objective is closing May futures prices above solid technical resistance at $28.00. The next downside price objective for the bears is closing prices below solid support at $25.00. First resistance is seen at $27.00 and then at this week’s high of and then at $27.44. Next support is seen at $26.50 and then at $26.25.

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