Unusual trend of gold and the dollar together

There are often times in the market where things move in different directions than what you should think would happen given the economic circumstances.  One of such unusual gold trends is the recent activity between gold and the dollar.  Usually gold moves in the opposite direction of the dollar, so that when gold is up the dollar is down.  However, for the past month gold has risen along with the climb in the dollar.  This is certainly an abnormal trend indeed.