Late last week, traders, investors, hedge jockeys and the rest all switched horses in the middle of the stream — by bailing out of the risk assets of currencies and metals that they had bought — and pushed the prices higher earlier in the week. Gold got slammed big-time, so I guess there’s no reason [...] China Lowers GDP Target originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning . The Daily Reckoning, published by Agora Financial provides over 400,000 global readers economic news, market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas.