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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BUncirculated, post: 1269861, member: 29581&quot;]It&#039;s not just the precious metals.</p><p><br /></p><p>All markets worldwide are on a fear factor decline right now. </p><p><br /></p><p>The DOW Jones, dropped 500 points today alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>From CNN Money:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial">NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Stock prices continued a precipitous fall Thursday afternoon, with the Dow industrials plunging more than 500 points, after dour comments about the economyfrom the Federal Reserve sparked a broad sell-off.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial">Seeking safe havens, investors continued to move into U.S. Treasuries, which rallied and pushed the yield on the 10-year note down to new record lows.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial"></font></span><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial">Worries about a slowdown in global growth pushed most commodities lower, with copper, oil, gold and silver prices all plummeting.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial">Investors also remain jittery over the fate of Europe. &quot;There&#039;s still a lot of fear that September 2011 is going to be a lot like September 2008,&quot; said Larson, &quot;and Greece is going to play the role of Lehman Brothers.&quot;</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial">The market&#039;s fear gauge, the VIX (<a href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=VIX&amp;source=story_quote_link" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=VIX&amp;source=story_quote_link" rel="nofollow">VIX</a>), spiked 17% to 43.65. Any reading above 30 signals investor worry.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial"><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/22/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/22/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2" rel="nofollow">http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/22/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2</a></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="Arial"></font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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