Badly damaged

The gold price began to rally a bit in the hour leading up to the Shanghai open on their Friday morning, but was then sold/engineered lower until noon China Standard Time...with its ensuing rally getting capped at the 2:15 p.m. afternoon gold fix over there. It was then sold quietly lower until a vicious down/up spike took place when the CPI number hit the tape. Its boomer rally was capped at 9 a.m. -- and its high tick was set at the 10 a.m. EDT afternoon gold fix in London.

IPOH: A stunned Osman Abu Bakar stared blankly ahead of him after seeing an inter-city bus ram into the perimeter wall of the magistrate’s and Sessions Court building here. The incident was devastating to the 53-year-old fire extinguisher serviceman as he lost his only mode of transport. “I was unloading fire extinguishers from my van when I suddenly heard the loud honking of the bus. “The driver was trying to avoid ramming into a car. “Moments later, I saw the bus heading towards me.