Gold, along with stock prices, held near unchanged after strong jobs data out of the private firm, ADP.  At $1,337.20, gold was lower by $0.90 following the release of ADP’s jobs survey, which showed employers added 187,000 payrolls in the month of January – ahead of the 140,000 consensus forecast.

S&P 500 stock futures were lower by 1.00 at 1,301.50 while oil inched higher to $91.10 per barrel, as measured by the March WTI crude contract.  Silver slipped $0.13 to $28.40 per ounce.