Gold pole-axed, but bugs (and others) calm

``Murphy wrote yesterday: “Clearly, The Gold Cartel is on a mission to bury gold and silver. Veteran Café members have gone through this drill time and time again. Sometimes in the past, the raids have led to prolonged periods of precious-metals price weakness. Others have only led to temporary price weakness. This bombing ought to be the latter for a very good reason.” The “very good reason” Murphy cites is the usual: evidence of a strong upswing in physical gold off-take in various Eastern markets, notably India, as evidenced by the premiums to world gold in local markets, monitored by the website. ''