The recent break in the gold price, in which the king commodity has completed a 20% drop since the high point of late last year, holds a clue.

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Ross believes a holiday rally will fall short of the record high though and could segue into another drop at some point after January earnings.

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Patients with high cholesterol had, on average, a fifty-point drop in their levels.

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What started out well for the bulls, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up as high as 127 points before noon, turned into a 179-point drop to 11, 010 by the close.

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