ira epstein at the linn group says today's swiss action helps the dollar, at least for a couple of days. >> tom: the dollar gets a bid because we're worried about the near term, and then we'll switch gears after the president's speech wondering what's up with our own fed, and the dollar's rally could be extremely short lived if the fed puts out another qe 3 type program because we debase our currency again. qe a reference to quantitative easing. with the currency intervention, a lot of folks on gold, and we did see a climb to its most recent high actually hitting over $1900 an ounce, and gold with a small drop, still closing around $1873 an ounce. meantime energy company sunoco with a nice rally. the company nots out of the refinery business. its two pennsylvania refineries are for sale. and speaking of deals, packaging company temple inland shot up 25% as it reached a deal with international paper two months after i.p. made a hostile bid. the price is $32 dollars per share. the buyer, i.p., also jumped-- up almost 9%. and that's tonight's "market focus." it was one year ago this month