Gold glitters in this week's stock market wasteland

• Gold and silver miners are the lone rose growing in this week's stock market garbage heap, as the out-of-favor group responds to the highest gold prices in two months amid the flight to perceived safe havens.
• China’s move to devalue its currency at once stokes worries that growth in the world’s no. 2 economy is more sluggish than feared and that other Asian countries will retaliate with devaluations of their own to keep exports competitive, which could bode well for further gold price upside.
• This week's results so far for top precious metals miners: HMY +53.7%, ABX +18.4%, IAG +14.3%, AEM +14.1%, GFI +13.2%, AUY +12.9%, SBGL +12.8%, AU +11.2%, EGO +10.8%, GG +10.1%, KGC +9.9%, FNV +7.9%, GOLD +6.1%, NEM +4.9%, SLW +4.6%.
• ETFs: GDX, NUGT, GGN, DUST, SIL, GLDX, SGDM, ASA, SLVP, RING, PSAU, TGLDX, PICK, GDXS, GDXX