After consecutive days of record closes, front-month gold futures fall back--slipping 0.5% to $2,856 a troy ounce. It's still the second-highest close in the front-month contract's history. Despite ...

Stocks were headed lower heading into the close. The Dow was falling 300 points or around 0.6%. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were down 0.1% each. The latter two indexes were up for most of the day.