Microsoft has announced that the Xbox Live Gold service will have be free to all from October 4th until October 6th. This will unlock access to everything to behind the Gold paywall including online multiplayer and various media apps including Netflix …

Gold analysts are bullish for a third consecutive week on speculation that the first U.S. government shutdown in 17 years and a standoff over raising the country's debt limit will spur demand for the metal as a haven. Eighteen analysts surveyed by …

Mutual fund investors are on pace to sell Canadian stocks for the 10th straight quarter as slumps in shares from Detour Gold Corp. (DGC) to BlackBerry Ltd. (BB) weigh on the developed world's second-worst performing equity market. Canadians sold about …

Gold held above $1,300 an ounce, trimming a weekly loss, as investors weighed the prospect of slower U.S. economic growth as a partial government shutdown entered a fourth day and lawmakers wrangled over the debt limit. Bullion for immediate delivery …

Where would we be without China? It is a question many people in the commodities industry have asked in recent years. But it has particular resonance for gold. An explosion in physical demand from the second biggest economy has prevented a sharp …

Investors who moved into gold-mining companies' stocks in hopes of capturing or magnifying the move in gold's price should hear the figure from Ned Davis Research's John LaForge at this year's Morningstar ETF Invest conference. About 50% of the price …

The Property: In 1868, Chicago was booming. The Republican National Convention took place downtown. And on Schiller Street, which this old map shows as one of the city's northernmost streets, the young architect Dankmar Adler built a set of rowhouses.

The official word: Discovery Channel's highest rated series, GOLD RUSH, returns for a fourth season with a two hour season premiere on Friday, Oct. 25 at 9PM ET/PT. The GOLD RUSH pre-show, The Dirt, hosted by series executive producer Christo Doyle, …

Young has a gift for turning "garbage" into "gold," as Philadelphia 76ers play-by-play man Marc Zumoff is fond of saying. It's a gift that he has taken to another level since signing a five-year, $43 million contract extension in 2010. Since then, he's …