Gold, silver see upside price corrections after recent steep slide Gold and silver prices are moderately higher in early U.S. trading Tuesday, on normal upside price corrections after the sharp losses suffered last Friday and on Monday. The precious metals bulls appear to have stabilized their markets—at least for now. October gold futures were last up $7.40 at $1,731.80 and September Comex silver was last up $0.166 at $23.435 an ounce. (By the way, I was on vacation last week—leading…