Commodity Prices

Gold •15 mins	1,811.80	+8.00	+0.44%
Platinum •15 mins	853.70	+6.80	+0.80%
WTI Crude •11 mins	39.11	-0.51	-1.29%
Gasoline •11 mins	1.241	-0.010	-0.78%
Ethanol •14 hours	1.395	+0.035	+2.57%
Silver •15 mins	19.09	+0.12	+0.65%

Silver • 15 mins	19.09	+0.12	+0.65%
Copper • 15 mins	2.856	+0.017	+0.60%
Brent Crude • 11 mins	41.89	-0.46	-1.09%
Natural Gas • 11 mins	1.750	-0.029	-1.63%
Heating Oil • 11 mins	1.216	-0.008	-0.67%

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Prior to founding the Specialty Finance Group in 1989, Mr. Benson acted as a trading desk economist for Chase Manhattan Bank in the early 1980's and started in the securitization business in 1983 at Bear Stearns, and helped build the early securitization businesses at Citibank and E.F. Hutton.

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