[StillProud2BeFree]

LOL Liz must have been typing while I was :)

Dow is up;
Silver is down to $6.01
According to Kitco, Platinum, Rhodium, and Palladium are down. Gold is hovering around $392 give or take a little.

[swarthyguy]

The body of a Danish businessman was also recovered.

GE and Siemens have evacuated their employees. And this.

S. African killed in Baghdad supermarket
Thu 22 April, 2004 16:46

By Alistair Lyon

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A gunman has shot dead a South African security guard in a Baghdad supermarket after accusing him of being Jewish in the latest example of the widespread dangers facing foreigners in Iraq.

Kidnappers freed two Swiss nationals and a Palestinian, but several other foreign hostages remained missing. About 50 foreigners have been abducted this month. Most have been freed. In other incidents at least 26 foreign civilians and private security guards have been killed in March and April.

The South African, earlier identified by police as a Spaniard, was shot in the head on Thursday by a lone assailant who also wounded his Iraqi translator in a shop in Baghdad's Sunni Muslim Adhamiya district, witnesses said.

[rickylc]

Did you notice the price of gold didn't even flinch when Greenspan announced interest rates would have to be pushed up sometime soon? (my guess, nov .3 :)

I think that the market had already digested this news through analysis a month ago, hence the jump in prices at that time.