Gold Glitters While Oil Spills: Markets Keep Everyone Guessing

While stocks and currencies play their usual game of hot potato, gold has become the cool kid at the economic party, strutting around at $2,900 per ounce. Meanwhile, oil is having a midlife crisis, tumbling down to $66 per barrel. Who said precious metals can't have all the fun?

All That Glitters Is Actually Gold

The yellow metal's showing off its Superman cape again, rising 1.85% to $2,911 as investors scramble for safety like squirrels hoarding nuts before winter. With the U.S. economy doing its best impression of a wobbly tightrope walker, gold's getting more attention than a pizza at ...