Stocks were swooning today, perturbed by Brexit and Trexit: Britain's proposed exit from the EU and the Sino-American Trade Dispute and disengagement from 'free trade.' 

Gold and silver were higher on a slightly weaker dollar.

There will be a precious metals option expiration next Tuesday.

This will be a holiday-shortened trading week due to the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday.

The highly volatile NDX futures are in a cautionary state due to their renewed decline. The SP 500 has not yet followed and confirmed.

If life seems particularly confusing, perhaps you might consider the sources of information with which you are feeding your mind. Some sites have become cornucopias of thinly disguised propaganda written by hawkers of hyperbolic hoo-haw. They trade in false outrage, pander to prejudice, and will say almost anything for clicks, which are 'bucks'.

There is little surprise that feeding all day on such junk gives you a headache. And even the mainstream media are polluted almost daily by expulsions from the pathological prevaricator-in-chief.

The young man is in London for the next two weeks, visiting his girlfriend who is finishing her studies there. He is still doing his at NYU. The out-of-town in-laws start arriving tonight.

Dolly and I abide. 

Have a pleasant evening.

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