We are still in the midst of watching the dust from last week’s presidential election settle. We’d like to remain neutral on the general character and abilities of President-elect Trump, but we can see a conflict between Trump and much of his party.

The U.S. dollar is up more than1.00% against the euro today, squashing gold down, despite the fact that in regular trading gold gained 0.35%. Overall, though, the yellow metal was down $8.50.

It’s understandable that gold would continue to slide as we celebrate not so much Donald Trump’s victory as we do the end of the election itself.