"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •816 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •19 mins | 1,749.10 | -48.60 | -2.70% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 93.98 | +1.57 | +1.70% |
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Gasoline •12 mins | 3.402 | +0.008 | +0.24% |
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Ethanol •816 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •816 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 816 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 816 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 106.43 | +2.11 | +2.02% | |
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Natural Gas • 13 mins | 3.084 | -0.112 | -3.50% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 4.685 | +0.223 | +4.99% |
Markets / Other
QE3 Silver Impact
Silver has been selling off relentlessly since the Federal Reserve expanded its third quantitative-easing campaign last week. As that decision was highly inflationary, silver's subsequent weakness has really vexed traders.
Congo and Cobalt Critical
What makes a metal critical: The availability or lack of these elements can have major impacts on energy systems and significantly increased demand could strain supply. That could cause massive…
Do Institutional Investors Still Control the Stock Market?
Over time, we have continually espoused the value of following the Institutional Index of "core holdings". It is not really an index, but rather, it is a compendium of the…
Confiscation of Gold - Then What? Part 3
In this part of the series on the subject of Confiscation, we look at the realities that you face in trying to avoid your gold being confiscated should a Confiscation…
Santa Claus Cliff
The chart to the right shows the average annual percentage return during election years. This chart has been a surprisingly accurate guide since spring, but this about to change!
A Look on Gold from the Non-USD Perspective
This was a week of declines for precious metals, very strong ones, indeed. It seems that the main culprit was not the U.S. dollar, that should have actually helped the…
Conservation Not Technology will be our Saviour - Chris Martenson Interview (Part 2)
In part 1 Chris spoke about: Why we shouldn't be speaking about Energy Independence, why we could see $200 a barrel oil in the near future, why peak oil is…
Don't Fall for the Shale Boom Hype - Chris Martenson Interview
We are in the midst of an amazing energy boom, but by sweeping the idea of peak oil under the rug we are ignoring a significant fact: the relationship between…
The Fed's Policy is Contradictory and Inefficient
This stupid law and its application just show how much we are living in a confused intellectual state. It also gives the Fed president an all-too-powerful feeling... very dangerous!
EUR/USD: Short-Term Bullish Momentum is Fading
EUR/USD has broken the strong resistance at 1.3172 (17/09/2012 high). However, the intraday bearish reversal made on 19 December close to the resistance at 1.3284 suggests a weakening short-term momentum.
