"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •588 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 2,114.40 | -31.30 | -1.46% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 64.31 | -0.32 | -0.50% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.955 | -0.024 | -1.21% |
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Ethanol •588 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •588 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 588 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 588 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 69.00 | -0.40 | -0.58% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.218 | +0.059 | +1.87% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.422 | -0.019 | -0.77% |
Markets / Other
Bond Market Misconceptions, Facts, and Fallacies; Bond Market About to Collapse?
The number of truths, half-truths, and blatantly false perceptions regarding US treasuries all strewn together is quite typical in mainstream media analysis, and also non-mainstream media analysis.
Progress of The Secular Bear Market: Position as of July 31, 2013
The bet I am making is that there will be another downturn as there was in the past and this downturn will send P/R below its previous low of 0.49.…
AUD/USD: The Short-Term Double-Top Calls for Further Weakness
AUD/USD has broken its support at 0.9058, after failing to decisively break the resistance at 0.9221. The implied short-term double-top calls for further weakness towards 0.8895. An hourly support lies…
Witches Brew, Fingers of Instability - Part III
The smell of economic NAPALM is in the air as the central bank printing presses have allowed mispricing, malinvestments and market imbalances to mushroom to EXPLOSIVE levels. Now the money…
Time To Focus On Economically Viable Junior Gold Miners in Nevada
We may have seen the bottom in the precious metals and the miners. A major uptrend could just be beginning in these oversold sectors. We are starting to see the…
Gold: Sequester: Part Deux?
Although this is the first time in the Fed's 100 year history to use Quantitative Easing (QE), it is not the first time the Fed used the printing presses as…
Fed Hits the Kill Switch
On Wednesday the Fed released the minutes from its July 30-31 policy meeting. Minutes from the meeting showed that most members of the FOMC agreed that a reduction of the…
Gallup Unemployment Rate Spikes from 7.9% on Aug 1 to 8.9% on August 20! Sampling Error or Seasonal Effect?
Inquiring minds note the steady rise all month in Gallup's Daily Employment Survey.
Utilities - Today's Best Bond Alternative
To refer to any stock or equity as an alternative to bonds or fixed income is sure to stir up the ire and consternation of many professional and individual investors…
3 Dangerous Myths About Rising Bond Yields
The consensus is that yields began to rise on or around May 22, also known as Bernanke Day. That was the day when U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke seemed…
