"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •191 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 996.10 | +11.70 | +1.19% |
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WTI Crude •4 hours | 76.57 | +2.65 | +3.58% |
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Gasoline •4 hours | 2.075 | +0.047 | +2.30% |
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Ethanol •191 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •191 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 191 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 191 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 3 hours | 79.76 | +2.84 | +3.69% | |
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Natural Gas • 4 hours | 3.989 | +0.288 | +7.78% | |
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Heating Oil • 4 hours | 2.502 | +0.124 | +5.19% |
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The Turning Retail Tide
Most economists expect the refinance boom to stimulate consumer spending, especially during the critical holiday shopping season. Part of the theory includes the four to six-week lag time from when…
Congressional Salaries
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Weak Links
Market action was choppy, but the bulls sustained their rally. For the week, the Dow added…
Bear-Market Portfolio Design
Welcome to the bear market. While such a statement was considered ultra-heretical and worthy of intellectual stoning-to-death not too long ago, today after 32 agonizing months and trillions of dollars…
CEOs Get Gloomy
CEOs across the county have turned into a gloomy bunch. A survey conducted by The Business Roundtable "raises serious concerns for America's workers, companies and overall economy," according to John…
Bank Troubles
The Fed threw a party and nobody came. They surprised the market with a full 50 basis point cut rather than the consensus 25 basis points. To ease fears that…
The Burden of Past Error
Worldwide the economic news is worrying. Finance Ministers and central bankers remain loath to admit it. They resemble underperforming fund managers who insist that it's the stock market that's got…
Blaming the Fed
It is surely more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have had one. During the great equity bubble of the 1990s Alan Greenspan acquired an illustrious reputation…
125 Basis Points Left to Sustain the Unsustainable
Wednesday afternoon's growing conviction of a reinvigorated bull market faded into the reality of unresolved financial problems by week's end. For…
Volatility Trading the QQQs 2
What an amazing week for stock-index speculators! It all began after the closing bell last Friday afternoon, when the US government declared that it was probably done harassing Microsoft. Minutes…
