Sept. 27 (MF Global) -- This market comment was written at 8:05 a.m. on September 26th, US east coast time...

Metals continued to decline sharply on Friday setting fresh lows despite other markets showing signs of stabilizing. Oil prices, for example, fell only slightly and the US stock market finished slightly higher after two days of harrowing declines that shaved almost 700 points off the Dow.