C. could prove supportive to the yellow metals in the weeks ahead if policy markets again push the US government up against its debt ceiling limit in the name of political partisanship.
In August 2011, Speth and his chief engineer finally broke through more than two meters of earth and reinforced concrete and the shelter's 278-millimeter-thick ceiling to emerge into a 40-square-meter space, divided into five interconnecting rooms by heavy metals doors.