Evening trading has opened for some commodities, and oil and gold prices are both collapsing.
Brent is off -0.87 percent (and counting) to $113.05. NYMEX-traded WTI is down -1.39% to $106.16.
Here's the chart for Brent:
Gold is also way down, declining -1.33% to $1,376.40
President Obama said he would now ask Congress to authorize a U.S. strike on Syria in response to evidence of a chemical attack, and markets are probably responding to the threat of imminent action now passing.