I just look at a stock like IAG (use just about any miner) and compare its price to where POG was, say, 3 years ago:
Mar/Apr 10
POG 1100 area IAG 13 and change.
Today
POG 1635 IAG 8 and change
That tells me that any correlation btw gold and miners is now an almost completely broken relationship and the market has "divorced" the miners in relation to POG.
Too bad, as some of the charts and balance sheets are beautiful textbook cases of oversold and undervalued...but it just doesn't matter anymore, the hedgies/funds/tutes have moved on and simply use the miners now for liquidity/short-term bounces and re-shorts.
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