Another updraft for gold. We’ve surpassed $1550 and we’re chugging toward $1555. Looks like some top-pickers are scrambling to cover shorts.

Silver trails far behind, trading in the $48.60s after repeated stalling just shy of the $50 level over the last week.

EUR/USD is edging higher but a critical report from the EU on the state of the European banking sector is undermining EUR strength, to an extent.