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We’ve seen incredible rallies across the board this week.After a worrying sell-off late in the day and into the close on Friday, the Dow and S&P500 all both took off on Monday, rallying by over 3%. They then followed through with gains of another 3% on Tuesday.The Nasdaq was up by even more.Given that tech was so totally beaten up, I guess the bigger rally is no surprise. You could apply the same logic to precious metals. Silver, sold down into the abyss, rose by eight and a half percent on Monday. The call for a multi-week rally in silver is looking good.Even the once internationally sought-after currency that is sterling has seen a barnstormer. A week ago everyone was talking about parity with the US dollar. It was all over the headlines (which usually means it’s time to take the other side of the trade). Even Turkey’s President Erdogan, with a display of hypocritical chutzpah that would capture the admiration of even the most duplicitous of tyrants, was deriding it. It has “blown up”, he said. He’s not