Today (Wednesday), a lot of people are on the sidelines, but I think generally investors are beginning to return to the market after they were vacant in the first three weeks of the year, ... Mutual Fund inflows have shown that.
When the economy is in recession, investors generally put their money into assets like gold, as opposed to buying assets like stocks, ... Gold is much more popular during recessionary times.
Oil prices are slipping, and that's generally good news for the market.