After an ever so brief reprieve the bears returned and once again started mauling the bulls during Wednesday’s trading session on the Canadian markets. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange plunged 5.32%, while the TSX Gold Index tanked 8.5% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, lost 5.71% with the declining issuers outpacing the advancers by a 607 to 224 margin, on volume of 141 million shares traded.

The Canadian markets saw a modest recovery from the recent carnage as a few brave investors went trolling for undervalued stocks in the wake of a potential major financial bailout courtesy of the United States Government.

Investor’s Daily Edge editors Rick Pendergraft and Andrew Gordon, speaking with Today’s Financial News editor J. Christoph Amberger, recommend four investments to make now to leverage volatility in the crude oil and currency markets.

Nuclear energy is the future again, says Andrew Gordon in Investor’s Daily Edge Unplugged. And uranium stocks are cheap right now. High gas prices are changing energy habits in the US. And nuclear offers a ‘clean’ solution…

Crude oil is grabbing the headlines but it’s coal and uranium that together provide nearly half the world’s power.

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