As a reminder this Friday is the option expiration for US equities.
Monday March 25 will be the option expiration for gold and silver on the Comex. This year's calendar is included below.
Today the miners were sold as the metals retreated a bit.
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception