Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
        - Scottish Proverb

Last Friday our headline on The Gold Forecast Weekend Report said "Ukraine Migraine." Fighting seems to have ebbed there for the moment, and, just as fierce battle did not give us a lift in precious metals, the cease fire did not give us a dip.

It's amusing to ponder that only last year the heads of state of China and Russia were calling for another entity to replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency. Well, someone ought to let both the Chinese and the Russians in on the new joke.