The gold market mostly favored the downside in the early action today. While an early washout in crude oil prices seemed to turn up the pressure on gold prices just ahead of mid session, crude oil had managed to bounce by nearly $2.00 per barrel from its mid morning lows and that seemed to provide some fresh speculative buying in the gold market. In fact, just ahead of mid session the copper and silver markets had began to recover and that in turn seemed to provide another boost to gold prices. Certainly initial strength in the Dollar provided the early pressure in gold, but with the US Dollar falling back into negative territory just ahead of mid session and oil prices at least attempting to rebound one could have gotten a sense that the early bearish tide in gold was beginning to shift.