Platinum is starting the day on the....>

SOUTH AFRICA: Platinum is starting the day on the front foot with Gold and

Silver on the follow.

-Overnight/yesterday: South Africa's biggest platinum-mining companies are

scaling back some operations as a record level of rolling blackouts start to

cripple key parts of the economy. Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. said it won't

send miners underground for the 4 a.m. shift on Tuesday if state utility Eskom

Holdings SOC Ltd. persists with the current level of blackouts.

*South Africa is the largest exporter of platinum in the world and has a 28.3%

market share of a global annual export.

**Fundamentals would suggest a higher platinum= a higher Rand.. But the street

is mostly focus onto the negative outlook and the never ending Eskom debacle. 

-Technically, we are still trading within that falling wedge pattern, and would

favour longs and/or adding on dips.