The gold market saw early flight to quality buying but despite continued weakness in the US equity market into mid session, gold prices just before 11:30 central time actually fell back to unchanged levels. Subsequently, gold fell very sharply along with the equity markets and that was certainly disappointing to the bull camp. Perhaps some longs we're simply inclined to bank profits ahead of the weekend or perhaps seeing the US Dollar give off the impression of finishing the week strong discouraged some players. As suggested in the midday coverage just saying discussions of a stock trading holiday in some foreign markets would seem to leave high anxiety in place into next week. Certainly the G7 will attempt to shore up confidence with weekend actions and that could be another reason why some gold longs decided to bank profits around the highs on today.