I received this from a major Canadian gold/silver dealer tonight.

Go figure:

"This is a very important notice from Silver Gold Bull regarding pricing for the remainder of today, Sunday August 7th, 2011.

Due to current global market instability, and the fear Friday's downgrade of the United States' credit rating has caused, we have been forced to temporarily raise prices of all precious metals on our website. This reaction is in anticipation of a massive spike in metals prices upon the opening of Asian markets at 6pm est. tonight, which at this point is the pervading fear amongst all of us in the precious metals industry. This is a measure which we reserve for only the most serious of circumstances, and this scenario is one of them. Furthermore, in scanning the marketplace we have taken notice that many competitors have ceased the sale of precious metals on their respective websites altogether and we felt that this was a better compromise for our customers at this time."