"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •65 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 926.60 | -3.70 | -0.40% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 68.20 | -0.95 | -1.37% |
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Gasoline •10 mins | 1.904 | -0.022 | -1.16% |
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Ethanol •65 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •65 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 65 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 65 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 71.54 | -1.15 | -1.58% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 2.284 | +0.030 | +1.33% | |
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Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.124 | -0.045 | -2.06% |
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The Kindness of Strangers
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Inflationist Watch
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A Bankers Tale
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Gold Woes!
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Curse of the Trading Range 2
Due to the stock markets' largely poor performance in 2004, the idea of a trading range has come back into vogue. Whenever Wall Street temporarily loses faith in its…
Doomsayers Pronounce Death to the Dollar
Every week now for the past six months the bearish headlines on the U.S. dollar continued to flow like a mighty rushing torrent. Each month the bearishness coming from the…
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Hail and Farewell!
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Gold ... On Hold?
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