Metals were capped most of the day. Could just be a consolidation.
Breaking news after the bell, S&P has cut Greece to 'selective default.' The action is based on the modification of the terms of the debt with some of the bondholders.
“Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead