"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •586 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 2,122.10 | +22.70 | +1.08% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 64.45 | +0.90 | +1.42% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.989 | +0.036 | +1.82% |
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Ethanol •586 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •586 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 586 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 586 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 69.14 | +1.09 | +1.60% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.142 | -0.280 | -8.18% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.421 | +0.007 | +0.31% |
Markets / Other
Bernanke vs. Yellen: A Spooky Outlook?
Fed Chair nominee Janet Yellen will take over where her predecessor Ben Bernanke leaves off. Not just operationally, but also philosophically. To understand where the Fed and the U.S. dollar…
Illinois Teachers Pension Fund is 40% Funded, Drops Deeper Into Hole Despite Investment Return of 12.8%; What's the Solution?
In spite of a 12.8% annual return, with an 8% return assumption, the Illinois Teachers Retirement System (TRS) fell another $3.5 billion in the hole. TRS pension underfunding grew to…
USD/JPY: The Short Term Decline Has Been Broken
USD/JPY has broken the resistance at 97.79 (see also the declining channel), invalidating the short-term bearish trend. A move towards the resistance at 99.01 is favoured. A first resistance stands…
Stock Market is Currently Overvalued and Irrational According to 2013 Nobelist
While stocks don't always act in what appears to be an irrational manner, these anomalies seem to happen enough to make the typical investor dubious that the stock market is…
Peripherals: A Puzzling Predicament
It is undeniable that behind closed doors, world leaders are worried about the global slowdown and the inability of the developed countries, after 5 years of relentless stimulus, to mount…
Why Growth is Deep in the Heart of Texas
A recent TIME Magazine cover features an engaging collage of the 50 states reassembled to fit within the boundaries of Texas. With a growing number of solid-paying jobs, affordable housing,…
Markets Should Expect 'More Cowbell' From Yellen Fed
Studies show that we all approach problems with an educational bias. For example, engineers develop solutions with math, and CFOs approach problems from a financial perspective. Therefore, it is not…
Silver and Mining Stocks
In our previous commentary we discussed the implications that the most recent moves in the USD Index and the general stock market are likely to have on the precious metals…
T-Bonds Suggest Increased QE
There are numerous measurements of the supply of money, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has charts for most of them.
Diverging View Points
Personally, I think even attempting to call a top on this character of an equity market is an exercise in the self-infliction of pain for now. It has been a long…
