The EUR opened the European session with an offered bias and has managed to retain that tone as we head stateside.

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On the charts, April gold futures are climbing higher for the third week in a row and are poised to head into early New York trading with a firm tone.

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Then, there was Obama's equally tone-deaf decision to name Janet Napolitano to head the Homeland Security Department.

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He may well have, but the eloquence was more in his tone, his body language, the tilt of his head.

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In the case of BecauseImGreat, Pizza Hut has turned that paradigm on its head, meeting prospective top-notch hires on their turf, in their tone.

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