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% |
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M.A. Nystrom is a private investor and consultant currently living near Boston. He earned his MBA from the University of Washington with a specialty in International Marketing. Following his retirement from the US securities industry, he picked up the hobby of web design, a trade he now plies at his big-picture investment oriented websites www.bullnotbull.com and www.depression2.tv.
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