Gold

Fundamentally, it's hard to get a grip on where the precious metals are going for more than the next 24 hours. News flies hot and heavy. Today's "yes" is tomorrow's "no." One day at a time, as the saying goes.

"Come on people, smile on your brother..." 

         The Youngbloods, "Get Together"

As the U.S. government throttled toward a shutdown, money invested in all instruments stampeded toward the sidelines around the globe. 

American jobs data released today was better than expected and it again thrust the tapering of QE3 to the front burner, nudging away the immanent government "shutdown" threatened by right wing members of Congress.