The British pound ended the week virtually unchanged as dovish comments from policy makers were offset by a brightening outlook for the global economy.

Activity will begin on Wednesday with the release of the Canadian Ivey PMI reading for September.

Mr. Market always has his tricks. What if he's preparing a run on the dollar, and a big blow-off in the gold market before the sell-off in other assets?

Investors were entitled to think that the economy "had turned a corner." Or, that the worst was behind them. Or, that they were "on the road to real recovery."

Local governments are going broke. So are national governments. The politicians will have to make choices.

If gold is going up, analysts reasoned, it must mean something. What? The obvious explanation is that inflation is coming.

The fourth winning week in a row, but how much more can we expect from the market?

This week the Fed altered their end-of-meeting statement by just a few words, but those words have a lot of meaning.

The next time you stake a trade on a seemingly logical premise, ask yourself, if the illogical alternative is actually the better risk for the moment.

Gold should go up with consumer prices. But, for nearly two decades -- from 1980 to 1999 -- gold went down while consumer and asset prices rose. Now, consumer prices are stable. Yet gold hits new records.