Will the results of Tuesday's election dramatically effect world markets?

The headline U.S. inflation rate seems to have peaked out at about 5.5% and is now headed down.

Mike Paulenoff's near-term pattern and momentum work in the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) suggests strongly that the gold miners ETF has some unfinished business on the upside.

James Mound reviews futures and commodities in his weekly report for the week of November 3.

There still isn't any confidence that we've already hit a market bottom.  Even with a possible market shake-out still ahead and a horrible jobs number on Friday, Wall Street is leaning towards a positive week.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for November 3.

This week John Mauldin surveys the economic landscape that the new president will inherit.

Based on history, are we more, or less likely to gain before year end?

While liquidity fears have been quenched by unlimited access to dollar funds, sharp interest rate cuts and global bailout efforts, the markets have merely passed through one phase of a much broader financial crisis.

The Federal Reserve remains likely to cut rates down to record lows before year-end, as indicated by Fed Fund Futures, which are fully pricing in a 25bp cut on December 16 and a 55 percent chance of a 50bp cut.