The technical charts are difficult to interpret as investors await Friday's employment report and the Dec. 16 meeting of the Federal Reserve's open market committee, when a rate hike may be announced. The yield on the U.S. Treasury 30-year bond remains below its 200-week simple moving average of 3.14%. Comex gold futures are just above a fresh multi-year low of $1,051.1 set on Nov. 27. Nymex crude oil is trading sideways above $40 a barrel. The euro versus the dollar continues to slip lower. Here's the weekly chart for the bond exchange-traded fund.

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