The gold market fell into the scheduled data but managed to throw off the selling pressure impressively, especially when one considers that the information pointed to ongoing US slowing. In fact, both the Non farm payrolls and the unemployment rate readings were worse than most expectations and that served to lift the Dollar and undermine a host of physical commodities like gold. Even wholesale inventories were down slightly less than expected and therefore the sweep from the economic front clearly favored the bear camp. However, gold prices still spent a large amount of time in positive territory. The low to high trading range in December gold into and through the reports this morning was roughly $15 an ounce.