"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •79 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 981.90 | -12.50 | -1.26% |
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WTI Crude •6 hours | 71.92 | -0.03 | -0.04% |
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Gasoline •3 hours | 2.036 | -0.024 | -1.15% |
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Ethanol •79 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •79 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 79 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 79 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 2 hours | 74.49 | -0.39 | -0.52% | |
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Natural Gas • 3 hours | 2.434 | +0.086 | +3.66% | |
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Heating Oil • 3 hours | 2.162 | -0.011 | -0.48% |
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Retail Sales Beginning To Feel Effects of Housing Slowdown
Today's May retail sales data provided more confirmation of a significant deceleration in economic growth. Total nominal retail sales were up a scant 0.1%. And without the boost from gasoline…
Will Corporate Bondholders Be Left Holding The Bag Again?
The latest Federal Reserve flow-of-funds data show that nonfinancial corporations "retired" a record $587 billion of equity at an annual rate in Q1:2006 (see chart below). Nothing wrong with that…
Morning Notes: Trend Reversals Imminent?
From Bruce Zaro: Since the peak in the Dow Jones on May 10th at 11650, the seasonably unfavorable market period arrived right on queue. Sectors that had led the market…
Staring into the Abyss
The parachutist is confident of the large gaping abyss that is open before him. Though he can only see impenetrable darkness ahead, he is prepared to jump. He is confident…
Modest Proposals
by Doug Wakefield with Ben Hill The most interesting combination of speakers, at the Conference of Monetary Research and Education, held in New York this May, had to be Glenn…
Central Bankers Declare War on Gold, Commodities
For the past four years, the big-3 central banks were the world's "serial bubble blowers," flooding the world with cheap money via historically low interest rates, in order to pump…
Bernanke Scares Pavlov's Sheep
This is a partial edited reprint of my article entitled "The Fed and Pavlov's Sheep" that was written and published in May of 2004. The topic is especially appropriate today.…
Warning! Fiscal Hurricane Approaching! Is Your Portfolio Secure? Part 3
In previous articles entitled "The Ominous Warnings and Dire Predictions of World's Financial Experts - Parts 1-6", submitted by Lorimer Wilson, one of my original subscribers and myself, we learned…
Why Rising Oil Prices will not Fuel US Inflation
"Every serious economist knows that rising oil prices contribute to rising inflation" or so think Thomas E. Nugent (NRO, Current Fed Policy Is Inflationary: Will our central bank throw…
Gold Sector Review
Below is an extract from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 11th June 2006. Current Market Situation During the long-term bull market in gold stocks there have,…
