"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •186 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 941.90 | -6.40 | -0.67% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 73.82 | -0.14 | -0.19% |
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Gasoline •10 mins | 2.047 | -0.007 | -0.33% |
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Ethanol •186 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •186 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 186 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 186 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 76.33 | -0.18 | -0.24% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.531 | +0.177 | +5.28% | |
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Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.354 | +0.006 | +0.24% |
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Deficits and Private-Sector Credit
For the week, the S&P500 jumped 2.1% (up 9.2% y-t-d), and the Dow gained 1.7% (up 7.4%). The broader market fire runs hot. The S&P 400 Mid-Caps surged 3.6% (up…
Trading Lessons From the 1998 Russian Debt Default
I remember the 1998 Russian debt default crisis and the associated Long Term Capital Management collapse very well. I was a novice trader who found the bearish arguments of the…
U.S. Housing Data Spurs Late Gains in Oil Prices after Mixed Week
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Goldman Sachs Charged With Fraud: Who Could Have Guessed? Part III
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This essay is based on the Premium Update posted on April 23rd, 2010. When gold declined last Friday we were not caught by surprise and neither were our…
How the Banks Print Their Money
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To Peg or Not to Peg?
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Will Gold be Bolstered by the Goldman Sachs Fraud Case?
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We're All Comrades Now
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