All markets need to pause and take a break and the bulls appear to be merely gathering strength for their next big upside assault on the key target from the October 2012 peak.

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The short pause would be their final break before their surge up the 12km-long Adams River, sometimes battling nine-knot currents.

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Give yourself a break for having a philosophical moment, a pragmatic pause.

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