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Spot gold to drop to $1,729.51/oz

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The first leg of the correction has stopped around $1,710.30, a support jointly provided by a rising trendline and the 38.2 percent Fibonacci retracement on the rise from $1,625.20 to $1,762.90.

The second leg, labeled as a wave "b", will end around $1,750, and a third leg, a downward wave "c", will take over, driving the metal down to $1,729.51, an hourly chart high touched on Tuesday.

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