It doesn't take much to bash gold... Just the mere prospect of renewed rate hikes will do it... But rate hikes alone will not "solve" the dollars problems...
But that's next weeks data point and news story...
Rather curious how they took down oil first...then almost as an "opps moment" came back to take gold down to match... Very interesting manipulation at work the last few days... The point always being to confuse and mask the obvious and the inevitable.