Quote from trefoil:
Crack open a newspaper. It's because Turkey is threatening to attack northern Iraq to squelch some Kurdish cross-border attacks. Meantime, in a stunning display of their soaring intellect, the Dems are pushing ahead with a bill to declare the Armenian massacres of WWI by Ottoman Turkey a genocide, which is just further provoking them.
Enter geopolitics.
Quote from trefoil:
Look, gold is my biggest position. However, today's move is due to the Turkish situation. That's true in both gold and oil.
The move is always fundamental, however, geopolitics very frequently provides a nice little kicker.