"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •82 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 961.80 | -20.10 | -2.05% |
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WTI Crude •30 mins | 70.37 | -0.63 | -0.89% |
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Gasoline •30 mins | 1.990 | -0.046 | -2.27% |
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Ethanol •82 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •82 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 82 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 82 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 17 mins | 74.18 | -0.31 | -0.42% | |
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Natural Gas • 30 mins | 2.613 | +0.179 | +7.35% | |
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Heating Oil • 30 mins | 2.145 | -0.016 | -0.76% |
Markets / Other
Confirmation Investors Are Getting Nervous
Market indexes ended the week on a down note. Last week, the benchmark SP500 index and the blue-chip DOW Jones Industrial Average fell 1.21% and 1.01% respectively. The tech-heavy Nasdaq…
Does Your Plan B Include a Second Place to Live If Plan A Doesn't Work Out?
Many people are unaware of the fragility of the supply chains that truck in food, fuel and all the other commodities of industrialized comfort to cities. As a general rule,…
Technical Market Report for April 15, 2017
New highs continued to deteriorate, new lows increased a little and the secondaries continue to under perform the blue chips.
The Next Crisis is the Mother of all Counter-Party Risks (Part 2)
Ultimately it should be considered that when we encounter these systemic events that it will impact the underlying currency. For example when the pension underfunding gets so problematic that the…
'Risk Off' Making Some Headway
Global "Risk Off" has been making some headway. This week saw ten-year Treasury yields drop 15 bps to 2.23%, the low since the week following the election. German bund yields…
Retail Sales Unexpectedly Decline, Revisions Even Worse
There are several economic reports out today, none of them any good, especially retail sales, the most important of the reports. Weakness was expected in this corner but not by…
Giving Credit Too Easily
Funds may be holding investment-grade stocks, but market forces have driven them to speculative prices. In the past, after such seasonal excesses Mother Nature has arranged for seasonal lows in…
Krunch Time for Korean Krackpot Despot, Kim Jong-Un: Missile Crisis Countdown Has Begun
The Korean missile crisis has never been hotter. Trump is turning the screws on everyone to force action. China, Japan, and South Korea join in threatening Kim Jong-un with imminent…
China Starting To Resemble Bernie Madoff
Aubible.com just released a new show on Bernie Madoff (Ponzi Supernova: Bernie Madoff Speaks, available for free to subscribers) that explains how the world's biggest financial scam was enabled by…
Supply Crunch Or Oil Glut: Investment Banks Can't Agree
In recent years, U.S. shale has thrown in another unknown in the mix of factors driving the price of oil. This year, shale output forecasts combine with OPEC's production cuts,…
