Very Dull, Place-Holder Session; Gold Record High

2:40 p.m. ET Today’s session is slightly positive, but lackluster to say the least.  I realized that in the A.M. Update, I forgot to put a minus symbol in front of the month-over-month Housing Starts stats. It should have read, “Housing starts totaled 1.238 million in July (consensus 1.350 million) or -6.8% MoM (-1.5% consensus) following a…