Gold was yet again the big winner, with investors bailing out of the broader bourse during Wednesday trading on the Canadian markets. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange plunged 2.42%, while the TSX Gold Index added another 0.8% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, fell 0.36%, with the decliners swamping the advancers by a 460 to 336 margin on 137 million shares traded.

I dropped in on the Cambridge House gold show in Vancouver this weekend. It was busy. People were generally upbeat and felt smart about the bargains they loaded up on during the recent rout. It was then that I realized that one gold ratio would lead to lower gold bullion prices while leading gold shares higher.

The gold market was obviously open in the U.S. on Martin Luther King Day. But not much happened except a continuation of the decline that began at 11:00 a.m. in London on Monday…which lasted until 3:00 a.m. New York time yesterday…shortly before London opened on Tuesday morning. This decline managed to shave about $18 off the gold price during that period of time.

It was a quiet news day during Friday trading on the Canadian markets as investors bailed out of the gold stocks and went bargain hunting for undervalued base metal plays. For the tale of the tape, the TSX exchange rallied 3.16%, while the TSX Gold Index fell 2.9% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, added 0.89% with the declining issuers inching past the advancers by a 444 to 419 margin on good volume of 169 million shares traded.

The hemorrhaging continued during Thursday trading on the Canadian Markets as falling commodity prices had investors running for the exits yet again. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange lost 0.58%, while the TSX Gold Index plunged 9.5% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, fell 5.39% with the declining issuers swamping the advancers by a 668 to 247 margin on volume of 153 million shares traded.

The unified interest rate cuts that included a 0.5% reduction in Canada did little to bolster investor confidence early on, but a binge of late day buying propelled the big board into the black by the close of Wednesday trading on the Canadian Markets.

It was all about the gold miners during Wednesday trading on the Canadian markets as the global financial meltdown had investors running for the safety of bullion.

The selling of commodity related stocks continued on the Canadian markets during Thursday trading.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is caught between a rock and a hard place right now. Sure, he would prefer that you focus on “core inflation,” since it excludes sharply rising food and oil prices. But we all have to eat and we all consume energy.

After an early morning sell-off the resource-rich Canadian markets rallied hard but the junior bourse still ended the session in the red during Wednesday trading. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange added 1.10%, while the TSX Gold Index dropped 2.1% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, fell a modest 0.06% with the declining issuers continuing to swamp the advancers, this time by a 580 to 394 margin on volume of 138 million shares traded.

It was a good day for shareholders of Noble Metal Group (NMG) after the company’s subsidiary has entered into an exploration agreement with Cougar Minerals for the exploration of Noble’s 37,980 hectares of oil shale exploration permitted lands near Hudson Bay,…