What is there to say when equities are struggling to find direction, oil is down, the U.S. dollar is flat, U.S. Treasury yields are down on the 10-year, and it’s Friday?

Despite powerful headwinds from a revived U.S. dollar, traders involved in regular floor action bid up the price of gold robustly today.

Gold traders could not decide which way to bid gold today, and so seemed to go on autopilot, allowing the U.S. dollar to do the work. Silver and the other two precious metals followed suit.