Market Wrap for Friday, April 12: Stocks Record Modest Losses; Treasuries Surge and Precious Metals Plunge
April 12, 2013 at 16:22 PM EDT
Although the U.S. stock market shook off worse than expected retail sales data, volatility hit other markets hard to end the week. Precious metals were slammed on the retail sales data along with some signs of deflationary pressures in Friday's economic data. Technical levels were broken to the downside during the