Gold •118 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •15 mins | 1,024.80 | -34.50 | -3.26% | |
WTI Crude •10 mins | 69.03 | +1.82 | +2.71% | |
Gasoline •12 mins | 2.002 | +0.050 | +2.57% | |
Ethanol •118 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •118 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 118 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 118 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 10 mins | 72.90 | +1.78 | +2.50% | ||
Natural Gas • 10 mins | 2.839 | -0.020 | -0.70% | ||
Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.196 | +0.062 | +2.90% |
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
Formerly City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning in London and head of editorial at the UK's leading financial advisory for private investors, Adrian Ash is the head of research at BullionVault, where you can buy gold today vaulted in Zurich on $3 spreads and 0.8% dealing fees.
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"Any house bought for 'No Money Down' should become a no money home, a free gift to the debtor. How's that for putting a floor…
"The bigger the top, the bigger the drop - whether in gold or the S&P index..." A DOUBLE TOP - or so technical analysts say…
"...No, it's not much of a punchline. But perhaps owning gold will at least raise a smile..." FOR THE BEST PART of seven years, it…
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"...Gold is demonstrably not the ultimate inflation hedge. Nor is it anything much compared to stocks, bonds or real estate..." "THE TWILIGHT of gold appeared…
Take a gaggle of celebrities, mix into mis-guided ad campaigns, and sprinkle liberally over the financial crisis... JUST HOW MUCH LONGER and deeper can this…
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"Gold must hit $2,200 an ounce to match its real peak of Jan. 1980. Or so almost everyone thinks..." WHAT'S IN A NUMBER...? Ignoring the…
Private bank stockholders aren't so much being crowded out as thrown out the window... NOW, I'M NO banking analyst, but that gap on my resumé…
A LITTLE theatre of the absurd guest-starring Zimbabwe's chief central banker, Gideon Gono, whose signature now adorns the world's first-ever 100 trillion-dollar bill... A country…
(with no apologies whatsoever to John Maynard Keynes) "Saving the savers is not the priority...This is surely the time to encourage people to spend, spend,…
Just what is the link between retail gold coin prices and the apparent manipulation of gold futures & options...? YOU MAY HAVE SEEN some rather…
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"Are you 100% American? Prove it! Buy US government bonds..." - Poster from the US Treasury promoting the Third Liberty Loan, 1918 THE BRITISH PRIME…
- WHAT on earth...? - Sorry, if you could just keep turned to the wall... - But what in the hell is that?! - This?…