boston. all dow 30 components ended in the red. after the so-called fear of gauge, the vix index was spotted at more than 40%. and the futures this morning after these declines, you ll see there are green arrows today, making up the ground loss yesterday. right now, the dow is up by 55 points, s&p is up by 5.5. gold is the major stoep story yesterday because it was down over 6%. by the end of the day, it had fallen to two-yee lows. the metal fell by as much as 2% today before buyers emerged. it had tumbled more than 8% by the close of yesterday s session. you can see right now, it s up by about $30. back to 1390 an ounce, but it fell well below 1400 and this was a big story we were watching yesterday. oil prices this morning are down once again. yesterday they regained some of the ground they lost in the earlier session. right now, oil is down by about 22 cents to 88.49. as for currencies, the dollar recovering from two-week lows against the yen. traders say that the risk sen