Commodities, gold and Asian markets all down

Asian and Australian markets were down on Monday. The Shanghai Stock Exchange was down -0.03%; the Nikkei tumbled -2.31% and the Hang Seng Index fell -4.21%.

The S&P ASX 200 was also down by -3.72%.

Commodities were all down due to worries about the Euro Zone crisis and concern about sluggish worldwide growth. Copper was off -1.8% to US$8,665/ton.

Gold was off 1.1% and trading at $1,835.6/oz.