It doesn't surprise me -- gold is facing some big problems.

Gold is a safe haven. We have major political problems in Iran and energy problems in Nigeria.

The problems you are seeing on the ship are a magnification of the problems you are seeing in parks across Texas. We are putting a Band-Aid on a very large wound.

There's disillusionment with the euro, the yen - and the dollar. Gold is a form of currency that's been around for 5,000 years.

It all helps to fuel the fire. Gold would have bounced anyway, but maybe not so quickly.

You've got a lot of factors lifting stocks today, ... You've got all the tech upgrades, money flowing out of gold, oil and the bond market, and the ISM this morning was all-in-all pretty good.