{"id":5943,"date":"2012-09-05T16:06:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T21:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=5943"},"modified":"2012-09-05T16:06:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T21:06:52","slug":"copper-breaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=5943","title":{"rendered":"Copper Breaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Yesterday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=5938\">Russell 2000<\/a> broke out and closed at its highest level since early May (on a closing basis). Today copper broke out. <!--more-->It still has some resistance between today&#8217;s close and 3.55, and then there&#8217;s a thin area between 3.55 and 3.60. Copper is important. A higher price implies strong demand which implies a healthy economy. It also implies China&#8217;s slowdown may be nearing an end. Copper doesn&#8217;t have to lead, but it can&#8217;t lag too much. This development is another good sign.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=5938\"><img src=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/pm\/copper090512.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=5938\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n   var gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\"); document.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + gaJsHost + \"google-analytics.com\/ga.js' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n   var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-6273151-1\"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=5938\"> <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=5938\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=5938\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Russell 2000 broke out and closed at its highest level since early May (on a closing basis). Today copper broke out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}