Either something was seriously wrong in the reporting of this story, or we're in the middle of a financial meltdown.
Gold is up $15 in the last 25 minutes, the USDX last I saw had dropped to 71.3 and headed south. Silver was 20.82 about 10 minutes ago and rising, rapidly going toward 21.
I just got back from a Navy Blue Angels air show in Sacramento, so find this alarming. Hopefully this will help the market find it's "bottom" without plumbing too deep of depths first.