"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •584 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 2,099.40 | +28.80 | +1.39% |
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WTI Crude •22 hours | 63.55 | +0.26 | +0.41% |
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Gasoline •22 hours | 1.953 | +0.027 | +1.38% |
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Ethanol •584 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •584 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 584 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 584 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 21 hours | 68.05 | +0.50 | +0.74% | |
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Natural Gas • 22 hours | 3.422 | -0.087 | -2.48% | |
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Heating Oil • 22 hours | 2.413 | +0.020 | +0.84% |
Markets / Other
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Do The Forex Boys Expect A Rally In Metals
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Stock Market Outlook for 2014
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23 Reasons to Be Bullish on Gold
Why giving up on gold may be one of the worst mistakes investors can make today.
Forecasting Cold to Continue Into Summer?
...the market "expected" core inflation of 1.22% in 2013 and actually got 1.72%. And yet, investors are pricing higher confidence that inflation will stay low - remaining basically unchanged in…
USD/CAD: Challenging a Major Resistance Area
USD/CAD has broken to the upside its horizontal range between 1.0559 and 1.0738. The implied short-term upside potential is 1.0917. Monitor the major resistance area near 1.0870 (see also the…
Six Reasons Why The Government Is Destroying The Dollar
The United States government has six interrelated motivations for destroying the value of the dollar:
What Has Been
A solid 2.5 years of risk management (to varying degrees) has been required of precious metals investors. It was most intensely required after the announcement of QE3, when the net…
