Attention of the market place is also turning to the Federal Open Market Committee monetary policy meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve, which starts Tuesday and ends Wednesday.

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Also, the market began working its way higher again after a policy statement following a U.S. Federal Open Market Committee meeting Wednesday showed that the Fed intends to stick with its accommodative monetary policy, said Sean Lusk, gold and silver analyst with Ironbeam.

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It seems to me the public policy behind effective enforcement of the open meeting law is so strong that it does outweigh the interest, at least at this time, which may exist in favor of sustaining the validity of the law.

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Next week also brings the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, but no change in monetary policy is expected.

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Many market watchers are looking ahead to the two-day Federal Open Market Committee meeting, where the Federal Reserve reviews monetary policy.

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Bernanke declined to talk about the different potential monetary policy easing options in his speech, stating that a more rigorous discussion on policy would be held at the next Federal Open Market Committee meeting at the end of September.

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The Federal Open Market Committee will end a two-day policy-setting meeting later Wednesday that is likely to show central bank officials are more upbeat about the economy but not enough to tighten loose-borrowing costs that have encouraged risk-taking, economists say.

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Minutes from the latest meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, the central-bank panel that sets interest-rate policy, indicate a rate-cut idea has been around for a while.

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