The gold market waffled around both sides of unchanged into and through the very critical US payroll figures. Certainly gold sagged because of the softer than expected readings but the performance in gold prices was fairly impressive in the face of numbers that pointed to deflation as opposed to inflation. In fact, the gold market action was even more impressive when one considers that gold was at least partially overbought into the numbers and that the Dollar during the trade Friday was mostly higher. Certainly the Dollar was unable to hold the gains forged in the wake of the data, but many physical commodity markets were under aggressive pressure because of the numbers and yet gold mostly dodged that influence.