Gold •170 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •15 mins | 936.40 | +12.90 | +1.40% | |
WTI Crude •18 hours | 69.46 | +0.08 | +0.12% | |
Gasoline •18 hours | 1.942 | +0.019 | +0.98% | |
Ethanol •170 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •170 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 170 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 170 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 17 hours | 72.94 | +0.06 | +0.08% | ||
Natural Gas • 18 hours | 3.748 | +0.164 | +4.58% | ||
Heating Oil • 18 hours | 2.232 | -0.006 | -0.27% |
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
Daniel R. Amerman is a financial futurist, author, speaker, and consultant with over 20 years of financial industry experience. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and holds MBA and BSBA degrees in Finance from the University of Missouri. He has spent seven years developing a large, unique and intertwined body of work, that is devoted to using the foundation principles of economics and finance to try to understand the retirement of the Baby Boom from the perspective of the people who will be paying for it.
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