"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 •20 mins | 2,107.50 | -9.00 | -0.43% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 64.64 | +0.28 | +0.44% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.986 | +0.001 | +0.04% |
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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 | 69.40 | +0.36 | +0.52% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.099 | -0.039 | -1.24% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.416 | -0.001 | -0.02% |
Markets / Other
Precious Metals: Today's Similarities with 1976
From 1974 to 1976 the Barron's Gold Mining Index declined 67%. From 2011 to 2013, the HUI Gold Bugs Index declined 66%. The chart below is an updated chart of…
Trying To Beat The Market Is A Fool's Errand
Proponents of indexing as the best investment strategy seemed to take great delight in reporting how the vast majority of professionally managed portfolios (mutual funds, separately managed accounts, hedge funds,…
Brace for Data Impact
Not a bad trick! The government shuts down, and the Administration threatens default; the stock market drops a few percent, and then rallies to new highs. Then the shutdown ends,…
You've Been PUNK'D - What Are You Gonna Do About It?
The Urban Dictionary defines punked as a way to describe someone humiliating you, tricking you, and ripping you off. At the subversive and deceptive hands of those issuing the world…
Markets Pop On Weak Dollar Events
Global trade has an enormous impact on both the financial markets and worldwide economy. Therefore, when the currency that serves as the guidepost for valuing assets drops 1%, it impacts…
The Jim Rogers View On Gold
If October has held any surprises for anyone so far, it has to be the bears. While volatility has been in evidence, the crash that some analysts were predicting has…
Unsustainable Social Security Promises: Spain vs. U.S.
I have written numerous times about pension problems in the US. Let's cross the Atlantic and take a peek at the setup in Spain, then let's compare the two setups.
BlackRock's Fink: Much More Worried About U.S. Now
BlackRock Chairman & CEO Larry Fink appeared on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers" today, where he told hosts Erik Schatzker and Stephanie Ruhle that stock markets may decline as a result…
Doug Casey: 'Government Shutdown? I Wish.'
The government shutdown is over, and many Americans are breathing a sigh of relief. But there's no reason to take a shutdown seriously in the first place, said famous resource…
EUR/USD: Moving Sideways
EUR/USD is moving within its horizontal range defined by the key support at 1.3462 and the resistance at 1.3607. A break of the initial resistance at 1.3568 (16/10/2013 high) would…
