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On Monday gold concluded its biggest three-day plunge in nearly 30 years, and prices struggled Wednesday under the weight of three factors -- the absence of which would sharply boost the chance of the yellow metal to resume its climb toward $2,000 per troy ounce.

Resale home prices rose to a record high in July, their eighth consecutive monthly gain, according to report on Wednesday that an analyst said signaled a gradual slowdown in a strong market.

Silver coins being offered by the U.S. Mint have been pulled from the shelf after a recent 26 percent drop in silver's value, in what is expected to be a pause to re-price the coins.

Gold prices fell in the last week more than 10 percent, their longest such plunge since 1983, in a plunge that left the metal's reputation as safe-haven investment bruised, or worse.

Amazon.com Inc is expected to launch its long-awaited tablet computer on Wednesday, sporting a low-enough price to give Apple Inc's iPad some serious competition for the first time.

Gold surged nearly 4 percent Tuesday on bargain hunting and increased Asian purchases of bullion, both of which were aided by a sharply lower U.S. dollar.

The local government in central China's Jiangxi province will tighten curbs on energy-guzzlers by charging higher electricity prices, amid a national drive for energy-saving and energy efficiency in the world's top energy consuming country.

Research In Motion (RIM) started slashing the price of its BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet in order to boost its lagging sales.

Gold prices rose more than 4 percent Tuesday, breaking a three-day losing streak, on optimism that Germany this week will approve an expansion of Europe's bailout fund and a decline in the U.S. dollar.

One thing is clear. There's nothing like a gold standard when it comes to analyzing the way the precious metal prices have behaved in the past three months. Gold's decade-long bull run peaked in the last three months when the prices went up by around 30 percent.

Gold prices rose more than 3 percent on Tuesday as a drop in the dollar index helped the precious metal snap a four-day run of losses and after an early rout in the previous session tempted price-sensitive physical buyers back to the market.

Gold tumbled nearly 4 percent Monday, hit by momentum selling and heavy liquidation by commodity hedge funds triggered by another sharp margin hike.

Best Buy, Office Depot and Stapes are all offering discounts of up to $200 for RIM's BlackBerry Playbook Tablet.

Gold prices fell 2.7 percent Monday, its fourth day in a row to decline, as investors raised cash to cover losses and a touch of optimism about Europe drew investors back into the stock market.

Gold prices, which lost 20 percent of their value since early this month, will rise for four reasons, say analysts.

Facebook is dramatically changing its designs and features, but one thing will remain unchanging on the fast-changing social media giant: you will never pay to use Facebook services.

Gold prices recovered from huge overnight losses Monday before paring losses to about 1 percent. Still in the last three days the precious metal has now lost more than 9 percent of its value in its biggest three-day drop since 1983.

The nine-disc set of Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray has become a chartbuster of all times in just its first week of release, breaking global sales records.

BioWare and LucasArts have announced that Star Wars: Old Republic will be officially debuting in North America on Dec. 20 and in Europe on Dec. 22.

A federal appeals court threw out on Friday an antitrust class-action lawsuit accusing seven companies of engaging in a global conspiracy to raise the price of potash, a mineral used mainly in fertilizer.

Silver mining companies suffered acute losses Friday, with many posting double-digit drops in their share prices.