[BRIEFING.COM] The major averages stand little changed in the last half hour with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite still atop the standings with gains of 1.43%.
Gold futures settled $7.60 lower (-0.5%) to $1,569.80/oz juxtaposed against another session of parsing out the implications of the spreading coronavirus on the yellow metal.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Dollar Index holds gains of 0.1% to 98.05.