LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures advanced Friday morning, responding to a sell-off in U.S. stock futures and international stock markets. Trading as high as $988.40 an ounce, gold futures at 6:30 a.m. Eastern were up $10.90 to $987.40 an ounce. "The price slide of U.S. equities, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling to its lowest level since October 2002, should result in a continued positive mood of investors on gold," said Eugen Weinberg, an analyst at Commerzbank
As I post this gold is $997 and silver $14.50