--and it's finally Friday and we're rich!
Silver, gold, stocks, everything's still hanging in there ($20.26, $1,335.06, up a 1/2% in lower volume). Looking ahead atm futures see metals rising +0.21% and stock indexes +0.46% (along w/ a lot of bearish contracts).
--and it's a big day for econ stats:
8:30 AM Empire Manufacturing
8:30 AM Retail Sales
8:30 AM Retail Sales ex-auto
8:30 AM CPI
8:30 AM Core CPI
9:15 AM Capacity Utilization
9:15 AM Industrial Production
10:00 AM Business Inventories
10:00 AM Mich Sentiment
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