Donald Selkin Note Quotations

We have a lot of factors at play here. It's an accumulation of all the negative economic news this week, capped off by the jobless data this morning, bond yields declining so sharply, and the weak forecasts out of companies. But what really accelerated the selling was the note out of Goldman Sachs about the Fed.

A slowdown in GDP could inject a note of caution in copper and the other metals. All of the metals are a down a little bit today.