Canada's TSX Composite index adds more than 200 points as gold prices surge to new highs above $1,111 an ounce, lifting mining stocks.

With gold at all-time highs, the market winds have begun blowing so hard that turkeys are starting to fly. Once they get off the ground, viewed in the right light, those turkeys can almost look like hawks or falcons.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Canadian shares fell sharply on Wednesday, in keeping with a global shift from commodities and stocks into perceived safe-haven assets such as the U.S. dollar.

Canadian shares head for a second day of loss, dragged down by falling energy stocks, while new data show mild inflation that may reduce pressure on the Bank of Canada to raise rates.

Ninth Inning Extra Innings or Game Over?As the stock market enters the second week of its most famous month of the year one has to wonder if we’re in the last inning of the game for this powerful market rally. The S&P 500 and NASDAQ have had a spectacular run since the March 2009 lows so it would be natural -- and even healthy -- for the market to pause and have a 5-7% correction.However the stock market has decoupled from economic realities so all market bears must beware that it could very well go into extra innings before ...

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