TORONTO - November 23, 2009 - BMO Financial Group today announced that it is one of the initial investors in the Greening Canada Fund, the first-ever voluntary carbon emissions reduction fund aimed exclusively at large Canadian corporations.

Gold managed to add about three bucks to its price from the beginning of Wednesday morning trading in the Far East…right up until 1:00 p.m. in the London afternoon…which was 8:00 a.m. in New York. At that point, gold tacked on $8 in less than 30 minutes…sat there until lunchtime…then tacked on another $8 in less than 15 minutes. Then one of the usual not-for-profit sellers showed up and that was it for the day. Gold did manage to poke its nose above $940 again…and finally closed above the $940 mark at $940.30.

Does this price have any significance? Who knows, but I can easily tell that ‘da boyz’ have been defending this price with great enthusiasm since June 15th…as the daily market action has been so obvious lately…confirmed by the graph below.

Silver didn’t show up for this party, but

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Donald Coxe’s monthly investment report, entitled “Basic Points” (subtitled “Capitalism Faces Its Greatest Challenge” for the November 2008 edition), has just been published. He is Global Portfolio strategist of BMO Financial Group and widely followed for his “big picture” views.

Like many commentators, Donald was caught by surprise by the rapid financial meltdown and plunging commodity prices. He said: “… we certainly didn’t anticipate the sustained earthquakes and hurricanes we have experienced in recent months.” He argues that it will be a long time before complacency returns, but that the “era of fear” will probably end soon.

Donald’s latest investment recommendations are reported in the paragraphs below, but I do recommend you also read the

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Although there weren't a ton of comments left on yesterday's video post it appears that quite a few people seem to be on the road to giving up on the stock market.If you are thinking about that, aside from my thinking that long term that is a catastrophic mistake, I would say to wait until the market makes back a meaningful chunk of what it dropped and while you're waiting try to figure out how to save more money.Barron's really outdid itself this week with a couple of very interesting articles.First up was an interview with Donald Coxe from BMO Financial Group. He outlined several longer term themes. He likes all things food as part of the ascendancy theme (this is a term I have been using for a while but he did not use that word). Each ...