We’ve spiked up in the last hour or so from $1321 to a high of $1338 as the markets eye of Mordor turns to US debt problems.

gold daily chart 25 09 2013

We’re back in the short term channel for now and the top end comes in at $1353. ahead of that we have the 55 & 100 dma’s at $1340 & $1343 respectively.

The dollar is continuing to look open to a sell off and USD/CHF has tumbled back below 0.9100 to 0.9080 while EUR/USD continues to push higher up to 1.3537.