No commodity has disappointed more than uranium. But don’t let that put you off. Now is the perfect time to become a uranium buyer (I’m assuming that you’re not the head of state of either North Korea or Iran!).

The Canadian Markets made a valiant effort to keep the seven-week winning streak intact but by the end of trading on Friday the late week rally fell just short. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange surged 1.85%, while the TSX Gold Index fell 0.3% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, tacked on 0.12% with the advancers beating out the decliners by a 448 to 334 margin on volume good volumes of 168 million shares traded.

It was another quiet Friday news day on the Canadian Markets with investors laying down bets that the worst of the economic news is now behind us.

It was all about gold during Tuesday trading on the Canadian markets, with investors scurrying to bullion as a safe haven against the global economic melt down. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange plunged 3.45%, while the TSX Gold Index surged 4.6% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, fell 0.70%, with the decliners swamping the advancers by a 472 to 336 margin on 161 million shares traded.

While the rest of the world is grappling with the global slowdown, China is figuring out ways to exploit it.

The Canadian Markets finished out the trading week in fine form with buyers jumping back into equities with a vengeance. For the tale of the tape, the TSX Exchange added 5.9%, while the TSX Gold Index tacked on 2.6% and the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s largest junior exploration bourse, rallied 2.42% with the advancing issuers outpacing the decliners by a 478 to 353 margin on volume of 139 million shares traded.

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…