Gold found help in a mildly weaker dollar and semi-enthusiastic regular trading. It added up to a modest 0.80% gain on the day. Silver was up around 1.15% and ever-eccentric palladium rose 2.80% on the day.

Asia opened the celebrations with the Nikkei jumping 2.45%, Shanghai up 1.80% and Hong Kong rising 1.60%. Good way to start the proceedings for equities bulls.

There is a handful of relatively simple reasons why it took till today for the stock markets to churn and burn higher.