The price of Gold just reached a 52 week high: $2,421.80 per Troy ounce.
Silver has also reached a 52 week high at $29.52
Crude oil prices have spiked three percent (3%) today.
Investors clearly believe a serious conflict is coming, soon, between Israel and Iran.
Iran has made clear it can and will close the Strait of Hormuz if the country is attacked. Twenty to Twenty-five percent of global oil flows through that waterway.
Give the reality that combatants tend to wait until after global stock markets close on a Friday before engaging in military action, today seems to be "the" day.
