U.S. markets were firmer, gold was a bit better, commodities are OK, so all is forgiven.

We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.

Clients have been talking the economy up and the numbers which came out today did them some justice. It's the sort of thing that can get people interested in stocks again, coming after the reporting season.

The expectation was that interest rates would stay the same for a while yet. The market came off a bit after that comment to the contrary.

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

The ring so worn, as you behold, / So thin, so pale, is yet of gold.