Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Risk On - Among the Lowest Trading Volumes of the Year

Stocks were in melt-up mode, especially after Europe went home for the weekend, and the denizens of Wall Street had the playground to themselves.

As you might expect most of the gains were centered on five stocks, the usual 'story stocks'.

Gold was off a bit with the Dollar in keeping with risk on.

But silver managed to pull back and close over the 19 handle. Good job.

We are enjoying a tropical rainstorm today. The winds are not bad at all, but the rain is rather intense at times.

Good. We needed it. The lawns were being baked into bricks.

Have a pleasant weekend.

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