Commodity Prices

Gold •289 days	2,368.70	+35.30	+1.51%
Platinum •15 mins	977.00	-3.10	-0.32%
WTI Crude •1 day	64.68	+2.21	+3.54%
Gasoline •1 day	2.099	+0.055	+2.71%
Ethanol •289 days	2.161	+0.000	+0.00%
Silver •289 days	30.82	+1.16	+3.92%

Silver • 289 days	30.82	+1.16	+3.92%
Copper • 289 days	4.530	+0.111	+2.51%
Brent Crude • 1 day	67.96	+2.11	+3.20%
Natural Gas • 1 day	3.245	-0.002	-0.06%
Heating Oil • 1 day	2.152	+0.037	+1.74%

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50 Whys to Leave Your (Risk) Lower

By Wilfred Hahn - Mar 22, 2011, 5:54 PM CDT

Following the halcyon and unamimously-euphoric conditions of stock markets, commodities and other "risk on" trades in the opening months of the year, recent global cataclysms and societal uprisings will seem such a timely intrusion. However the con census thinking most evident is that these events are extrogenous shocks ... things that will hardly change the long-term outlook for this spinning orb.