Coming under the influence of strong outside bullish forces, gold rose over 1.40% today. Little sister silver is up around 4.00%.

Only a few days after it became clear that an interest-rate hike by the United States Federal Reserve in June is very unlikely it isn’t terribly surprising that gold is looking for a wide hole in the line to run through.

Gold remained somewhat static in price today, not surprising since equities and crude moved up strongly based on various statements from Federal Reserve officials.