Commodity Prices

Gold •333 days	2,368.70	+35.30	+1.51%
Platinum •10 mins	1,054.90	-24.50	-2.27%
WTI Crude •1 day	60.79	-0.15	-0.25%
Gasoline •1 day	2.015	-0.022	-1.08%
Ethanol •333 days	2.161	+0.000	+0.00%
Silver •333 days	30.82	+1.16	+3.92%

Silver • 333 days	30.82	+1.16	+3.92%
Copper • 333 days	4.530	+0.111	+2.51%
Brent Crude • 1 day	62.78	-0.57	-0.90%
Natural Gas • 1 day	3.447	-0.075	-2.13%
Heating Oil • 1 day	2.005	-0.029	-1.42%

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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.