Gold Shares Outperform Metal, “Never Been in Better Shape”

Gold shares held up particularly well in the face of broad-based liquidation on
Wall Street on Monday. Despite the 1.7% sell-off in the the price of gold, and
the over 100-point decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), the AMEX
Gold Bugs Index (HUI) closed lower by just 0.7% at 603.57.