The metals are capping are coiling under some fairly stubborn price resistance.
Let's see how they do if stocks take a short term drop.
Otherwise this looks like a delaying action, a cosmetic appliqué.
"Day by day the money-masters of America draw together, they grow more class-conscious, more aggressive. Political corruption was the buying up of legislatures and assemblies to keep them from doing the people's will and protecting the people's interests; it was the exploiter entrenching himself in power, it was financial autocracy undermining and destroying political democracy. By the blindness and greed of ruling classes the people have been plunged into infinite misery." Upton Sinclair