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Submitted by Lakshman Achuthan via BusinessCycle.com,

This week's preceding 2 and 5 Year auctions, both tailing, were nothing to write home about, or as we characterized them "mediocre." We also said that a big part of the reason may have been the overhang from yesterday's Fed decision. But now that the Fed is out of the picture for 2 months, the real shape of the primary TSY market could show itself and sure enough it did with blistering demand for today's $28 billion in 7 Year paper.

We have been warning about China's speculative commodity trading bubble - spewing false signals around the world about the strength of the real economy - and now, as we suggested previously, Chinese authorities have decided to burst yet another bubble they created.Reuters reports that China's Securities regulator has ordered three major commodity exchanges to "control intraday speculation in commodity markets," ordering them to "curb trading for investors with no commodity industry background." Volume has crashed...

It seems - just as we have seen since The Fed's December rate-hike decision - that The Bank of Japan's "shock" decision not to pour more punch into the global equity bull's bowl overnight has sparked another leg higher in the market's indicator of monetary policy incompetence. Gold and Silver are surging back near cycle highs...

Precious metals are leading the way post-BoJ...

With Silver topping $17.50 once again...

And gold is back within $30 of Goldman's "Short Gold" Recco 'stop-out' level.

Rupert Murdoch’s popular trash tabloid The Sun could face civil lawsuits. A High Court judge in London has ruled that victims who claim that their phones were hacked by News Corp journalists working at the Sun tabloid can now pursue those claims for the very first time.