Tuesday afternoon’s closing bell on Wall Street didn’t just signal the end of the trading day. It also rang in the start of first-quarter earnings season.

While history has shown us that there shouldn’t be much correlation between the stock and commodity markets, the current inter-connectedness between the two at the moment is still very evident. We’re still seeing large, intra-day and intra-week price swings, most of it coming on the heels of stock market moves. 

Cautious trading seen ahead of Fed. Gold stayed almost entirely within a tight $5 range from the far East straight through the New York session on Monday, finishing at $893.20, up $8.20 from Friday. Overnight, gold has fallen off.