I'm not sure what you consider a buy signal-- but the strength of stocks like Kinross and Harmony must be discouraging for the broad market players. There's a story out this morning about the possibilities of $100 crude, certainly not bullish for the economy. It looks at thought crude and gold are joined at the hip for now. --------------------------------- Yamani: oil may hit $100 a barrel By George Trefgarne, Economics Editor <A HREF="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/25/woil25.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/0.." target="_new">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/25/woil25.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/0...</A>. Michael