Gold •153 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% | |
Platinum •10 mins | 942.40 | -17.80 | -1.85% | |
WTI Crude •10 mins | 69.98 | +0.04 | +0.06% | |
Gasoline •10 mins | 1.965 | +0.002 | +0.12% | |
Ethanol •153 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% | |
Silver •153 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
Silver • 153 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | ||
Copper • 153 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | ||
Brent Crude • 10 mins | 73.73 | +0.11 | +0.15% | ||
Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.004 | -0.038 | -1.25% | ||
Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.210 | -0.008 | -0.36% |
Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010
Richard Daughty (Mogambo Guru) is general partner and COO for Smith Consultant Group, serving the financial and medical communities, and the writer/publisher of the Mogambo Guru economic newsletter, an avocational exercise to better heap disrespect on those who desperately deserve it. The Mogambo Guru is quoted frequently in Barron's, The Daily Reckoning, and other fine publications.
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