"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •817 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •20 mins | 1,713.40 | -31.30 | -1.79% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 93.89 | +1.29 | +1.39% |
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Gasoline •5 hours | 3.321 | -0.017 | -0.50% |
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Ethanol •817 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •817 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 817 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 817 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 106.94 | +1.66 | +1.58% | |
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Natural Gas • 15 mins | 3.123 | +0.017 | +0.55% | |
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Heating Oil • 32 mins | 4.816 | +0.061 | +1.28% |
Markets / Other
Charts: The Junk Market Confirms Stock Market Trend
One of the things I like to watch as an indication of stock market health is the junk market. JNK has climbed along with this recent stock market rally, and…
TNR Gold Spin Out ILC Looks Attractive
Lithium-ion batteries are quickly becoming the most prevalent type of battery used in everything from laptops to cell phones to hybrid and fully electric cars to short term power storage…
BP Suspends 2010 Dividends...
The major index ETFs opened lower and after testing lower in the opening minute or two, leapt higher in the first fifteen minutes of trading, moved sideways for most of…
Jobs?
While economic reports can cause initial reactions, it's important to see the trend that remains. That trend continues higher. For example, oil futures got hit on the economic news, but…
Who Can Get Hurt the Most - Longs or Shorts?
Markets often like to end trends with a blow-off, so a short futures position would be risky right now. Options are most likely the ticket. The only problem is that…
U.S. Fights Global Hangover: Getting Drunk in the Process?
To understand how the ongoing global credit crisis may evolve, let's look at some cultural and structural considerations. Last decade, despite being told that there may be no money to…
First Real Estate, Next Bonds: The 1-2 Punch
Risk is one of the most ambiguous terms existing in the financial world. Though its commonly accepted definition almost always includes complex mathematics, it has recently been acquiring increasing subjective…
Revisiting Financials - Is There Life After Bubble?
Few executives have generated more criticism for a single quote than Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein. After telling London's Sunday Times that he's just a banker "doing God's work," the newspaper…
Albany New York's Public Pension: Perfect Example of What's Wrong in This Country
How does a convicted employee with a crime against their employer get to keep a pension? I can't tell who the bigger idiot is, the party who committed the crime…
BoomBustBlog Bankruptcy Search: Focus on British Petroleum and Collateral Damage
In continuing our search for potential bankruptcy candidates, we would be remiss in ignoring the malaise that is currently British petroleum and their drilling partners.
