Risk on or Risk Off? The gold versus Euro Correlation just blew out ...

Yesterday was a weird day. I say that because the correlations seemed all screwed up. Bonds were weak, commodities were basically flat to mixed (except for the precious kind), US stocks flattish, and yet the currencies were signaling risk appetite is back; well, except for the yen which strengthened big time yesterday (before intervention this morning). So we have considerable mixed signals on whether risk was on or off or taking a vacation.