March Comex silver futures prices are also in a three-week-old uptrend on the daily bar chart and hit a fresh five-week high overnight.

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March Comex silver futures prices are also in a three-week-old uptrend on the daily bar chart and hit a fresh five-week high Thursday.

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Prices are in a two-month-old uptrend on the daily bar chart and on Tuesday hit a fresh five-month high.

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It is often said that it is only the well-heeled who can holiday in St Tropez, but sit in a bar in the port here for just five minutes and you will soon see it is really the high-heeled who frequent this place.

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The five candidates left in our scenario are all looking at the same bar, and it is set quite high.

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