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Hi Moorookamick and all,

“Gold rises to 8-week high as traders focus on Trump and Brexit”

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/go...-traders-focus-on-trump-and-brexit-2017-01-16

A couple of geo-political news items that could possibly reflect on the Gold price.

I just hope yesterday’s man doesn’t start WW111 before he leaves the stage on Friday he certainly seems to be giving it his best shot, I hope cooler heads prevail. Government and ABS dodgy number might be the least of our problems!

“Some 300 U.S. Marines landed in Norway on Monday for a six-month deployment, the first time since World War Two that foreign troops have been allowed to be stationed there, in a deployment which has irked Norway's Arctic neighbour Russia.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-usa-military-idUSKBN1501CD

“Tensions between Washington and the Kremlin have reached Cold War levels amid reports Vladimir Putin is deploying nuke-ready missiles in the Russian province of Kaliningrad – which borders Poland, Belarus and Lithuania.”

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2531054/america-special-forces-russian-border-lithuania-obama-putin/

Cheers and very best regards: Andy