The metals were hit late day because some of the Fed member are fantasizing about an economic recovery this year, and of course, we get the Non-Farm Payrolls number tomorrow.
"Quite a lot of what passes itself off as dialogue about our society consists of people trying to justify their own choices. Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective."
Timothy Kreider, We Learn Nothing, 2012