'Gold Seeker Closing Report: Gold and Silver Fall a Ninth Straight Day (GoldSeek.com) Gold remained near unchanged around $758 in Asia and fell to as low as $736.45 by about 10AM in New York before it rebounded a bit in the last few hours of trade, but it still closed with a loss of 2.25%. Silver rose about 0.5% to $10.913 and dropped to $10.246 in New York before it closed over 2% off that low with a loss of 3.46%.
'Economic downturn ? now it's serious (Irish Emigrant) The latest exchequer returns, published on Tuesday, show the economy to be in even more serious trouble than had been acknowledged to date. Tax income in August was 20% lower than anticipated, leading to a ?2.8bn shortfall for the year to date.
