Commodity Prices

Gold •251 days	2,368.70	+35.30	+1.51%
Platinum •15 mins	994.70	+15.10	+1.54%
WTI Crude •10 mins	66.89	+0.64	+0.97%
Gasoline •10 mins	2.125	+0.020	+0.96%
Ethanol •251 days	2.161	+0.000	+0.00%
Silver •251 days	30.82	+1.16	+3.92%

Silver • 251 days	30.82	+1.16	+3.92%
Copper • 251 days	4.530	+0.111	+2.51%
Brent Crude • 10 mins	70.17	+0.61	+0.88%
Natural Gas • 10 mins	4.314	-0.139	-3.12%
Heating Oil • 10 mins	2.214	+0.017	+0.79%

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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.