"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 •15 mins | 1,735.90 | -61.80 | -3.44% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 94.62 | +2.21 | +2.39% |
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Gasoline •12 mins | 3.399 | +0.006 | +0.17% |
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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 | 107.12 | +2.80 | +2.68% | |
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Natural Gas • 12 mins | 3.056 | -0.140 | -4.38% | |
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Heating Oil • 13 mins | 4.705 | +0.020 | +0.43% |
Markets / Other
What Becomes of a Broken Stock Market?
You know what a mystery the Dow's 1,000-point drop on May 6 has been. Wall Street is looking for a smoking gun -- a trader's mistake, a computer glitch --…
The Threat of Hyperinflation Real or Not?
Higher Gold and Petrol prices are one of the clearest signs that inflationary forces are gathering steam. Do not confuse inflationary forces with inflation; inflation is defined as an increase…
The Commodities Con
In last month's Absolute Return Letter I raised a yellow flag concerning the short term outlook for commodities. Quite a few readers asked me to elaborate on that, which is…
Some Not So Deep Thoughts On Gold
From the "Department Of It's A Sure Thing", we have, once again, investors being told that an asset is a sure thing just as it is making new highs. Yes,…
The Nuclear Option
Power is all about the numbers. Consider the illustration below, which shows how current electricity generation technologies stack up when it comes to producing energy (cost is in dollars per…
It Could Have Had Class
Last week, the European Central Bank abandoned all pretense that the euro would be the worthy heir of the Deutsche mark; based on the enormity of the nearly $1 trillion…
Market Update - Dow Jones - Channel Time!
Yesterday the market reversed from almost a 200 point decline as probabilities favoured a rise on Monday in which declining action offered a low risk Buy. Of course after Monday's…
An Update on the Gold Bull Market and the SP 500 Index
At this point in the Bull market, it is common to have the crowd of investors move from a bias towards viewing all news as positive, to a negative slant…
Gold and Silver Update
A point we've made numerous times over the years is that gold is not primarily a play on a decline in the US dollar's foreign exchange value; it is a…
MortiES Analysis ~ Happy Birthday Maryanne!
I was asked a question today about how to trade my charts and projections. That is the million dollar question! I still have a really hard time trading even my…
