Both gold and silver tested the expected support levels of 1450 and 40 today and held those levels successfully.
Let's see what new variations on a theme that the TBTF banks will have for us, even as they start trotting out their earnings tomorrow.
"The wealth of another region excites their greed; and if it is weak, their lust for power as well. Nothing from the rising to the setting of the sun is enough for them. Among all others only they are compelled to attack the poor as well as the rich. Plunder, rape, and murder they falsely call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace."
Tacitus, Agricola