For India all that glitters is gold as festival nears
Reuters - It was only two weeks to the most auspicious Hindu festival of Diwali, but with gold prices at a 28-year-high above $775 an ounce only a handful of customers are attracted to the hundreds of jewelry shops packed in New Delhi’s Karol Bagh market.

Oct 24, 4:28 PM EDT
Associated Press - Gold prices rose. The National Association of Realtors said sales of existing homes fell 8 percent in September - the largest decline on the books dating to 1999 and nearly double the 4.5 percent drop economists had forecast - while the median home

Stocks Moderately Lower on Housing Data
Newsday - The dollar fell against most other major currencies, except the yen, while gold prices rose. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 4.74, or 0.58 percent, to 806.11. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by 3 to 2 on the New York Stock