RE: RE: markets opened weak I wouldn't call that manipulation. There's widespread speculation of Bernanke pulling out of QE soon or earlier than expected. That is bad for Metals, bad for Equities and excellent for the Dollar. Which means it's great for HVU.
The market naturally wants to use a dollar over Gold/Silver when the dollar is not being counterfeited, so when a hint comes out that this may stop, the market reacts accordingly. However, I would strongly speculate that Bernanke will ramp up QE even higher as soon as he sees a strong market correction resulting from talk of him pulling out or from him actually pulling out.
He has no choice but to keep printing and shooting the market up with cocaine. It's addicted to his drugs. As soon as he stops the market gets withdrawl and crashes.