(These are the market notes on today's action by Mike Santoli, CNBC's Senior Markets Commentator. See today's video update from Mike above.) The broad market held Monday's 1% pop, using another bout of rotation from recent winners toward less-crowded groups to hold the indexes at or just shy of record highs. It was a churning, low-momentum session, with the S & P 500 trading for a seventh day within the range left by the 2.7% drop on Oct. 10. But not unhealthy given the solid response to several earnings prompting a shift toward Old Economy names and out of some of the speculative froth pockets. Gold being pole-axed from a profoundly extended height, falling more than 5% to levels last seen … eight days ago. Gold bulls, bears and bugs alike have been aware that its angle of ascent looked u

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