I think this is a battle between people taking profits and people afraid they haven't been participating, by not having enough (commodities-related stocks) in their portfolios.

We're stalled. When you see oil prices back up to their high, you've seen gold hovering around $600 US, people are making some really good money and I think there's a lot of people who are just taking the opportunity to crystallize some gains which is keeping the market at bay a little bit right now.

There is certainly not a lot of inducement to buy (stocks) right now. It does look a little bit tired and the valuations, in my mind, are not anything to get excited about.

We've had a pull-back in gold and oil prices, and surprise surprise, oil and gold companies are off, that's the Canadian market.

A lot of the move today was going back to our old favorites -- gold and oil.

All we are seeing is a little bit of profit taking after the surge we have had in the last couple of days. We started off the year with a tremendous boom.