Commodity Prices

Gold •353 days	2,368.70	+35.30	+1.51%
Platinum •10 mins	1,264.50	-48.60	-3.70%
WTI Crude •1 day	73.84	+0.34	+0.46%
Gasoline •1 day	2.330	+0.021	+0.91%
Ethanol •353 days	2.161	+0.000	+0.00%
Silver •353 days	30.82	+1.16	+3.92%

Silver • 353 days	30.82	+1.16	+3.92%
Copper • 353 days	4.530	+0.111	+2.51%
Brent Crude • 1 day	77.01	-1.84	-2.33%
Natural Gas • 1 day	3.847	-0.142	-3.56%
Heating Oil • 1 day	2.542	+0.008	+0.33%

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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.