"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •680 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 2,009.30 | -82.10 | -3.93% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 104.42 | +3.25 | +3.21% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 3.646 | +0.040 | +1.12% |
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Ethanol •680 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •680 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 680 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 680 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 108.48 | +2.76 | +2.61% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.924 | +0.030 | +1.04% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 4.023 | +0.117 | +3.00% |
Markets / Other
Is This the True Breakout, or Are We In for a Correction?
Recently, there has been much distrust of the political process in the U.S. where politicians are Dancing on the (debt) Ceiling, as the Lionel Ritchie song goes. Negotiations to raise…
Converging On The Horizon
The end is near! Stock market history and earnings cycle history are converging. As a result, the market is likely to be down for the year 2011 or 2012. If…
As Our Markets Remain Strong How Far Can GLD Run?
Yesterday was a very interesting day. All of the stars were aligned for a perfect storm as Asia had sold off 3%. Europe's market was selling off on fears of…
Debt Ceiling - What Now?
Politicians understand that most harsh political rhetoric is part of the game and not personal. Most also understand that, in extremis, they must find a way to work together enough…
Daily Technical Report
EUR/USD has extended its rebound and triggered an initial breakout above the major rate's 'Bermuda' triangle, where several 'false signals' have previously been exhibited.
The Achilles Heel
One of the great paradoxes of the post millennium financial construct is the higher the equity markets extend themselves, the greater their vulnerability to monetary and fiscal interference.
Continued Worries Over U.S. Debt Ceiling Deal...
Monday saw both continued optimism (the NASDAQ-100 reached a new intraday high for the year) and some pessimism with all the equity indexes we regularly monitor closing lower. U.S. equities…
Real Performance
We'll now step back and review some 'big picture' inflation-adjusted charts. These charts show monthly prices in June-2011 dollars, using our own inflation index to adjust historical data for the…
U.S. Continued Debt Ceiling Debate
Rather than reference and comment on any one or more of the multiple articles and ongoing media streaming of the 'toing and froing' of the U.S. Debt Ceiling debate, this…
A Billion Screaming Benjamins
Can one billion Benjamins be wrong? Actually, it's more like 1.57 billion hundred-dollar-bills (aka "Benjamins") that the EU and private bondholders are committing to the defense of Greece - inexplicably…
