Florian Siegfried, head of precious metals and mining investments with Zurich-based AgaNola, says there are small signs—fewer equities participating in the recent rally, greater spreads in the high-yield market—that the sentiment toward gold is changing.

Patience is the key to a golden future for both investors and miners. Thomas Drolet of Drolet & Associates Energy Services Inc. is an energy expert who is also an avid gold investor.

Goldcorp Inc.’s third-quarter 2014 adjusted earnings (excluding one-time items) decreased 63.2% to $70 million or 9 cents per share from $190 million or 23 cents a share earned in the year-ago quarter.

Last week the gold market was ambushed twice in close succession – first by the Fed’s “everything is fine” statement (no-one can have been surprised by the well-telegraphed temporary end of “QE”) and then by the BoJ’s surprise assault on the yen.

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The Fed will end its quantitative easing purchases of government debt as scheduled.