The fever in the gold and metals markets may be breaking as prices suddenly snapped back on Thursday following their jaw-dropping runs.
Meanwhile, the worst day for Microsoft in years is yanking the U.S. stock market away from its record heights.
The S&P 500 sank 1% after flirting with its all-time high earlier in the morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 113 points, or 0.2%, as of noon Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.9% lower.
Microsoft was the heaviest weight on the market by far, and it tumbled 12% even though the tech giant reported stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected.
Investors honed in instead on how much Microsoft is spending on invest
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