"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •687 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 1,964.00 | -0.80 | -0.04% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 97.89 | +1.54 | +1.60% |
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Gasoline •47 mins | 3.452 | +0.072 | +2.13% |
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Ethanol •687 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •687 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 687 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 687 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 104.57 | +1.99 | +1.94% | |
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Natural Gas • 16 mins | 2.995 | -0.023 | -0.76% | |
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Heating Oil • 19 mins | 3.881 | +0.049 | +1.29% |
Markets / Other
10 States In Deep Fiscal Trouble
Dropping tax revenue, rising unemployment and yawning budget gaps are wreaking havoc in states from Arizona to Wisconsin, a new report shows.
How Will Niagara Falls Fit Through a Garden Hose?
While physical gold will protect our wealth, it's the gold stocks that can potentially make us wealthy.
A Lot of Cash to Find in a Hurry
With 30-year bond yields still lower than they were before last winter's wipe-out, there's an urgency about refinancing debt as 2010 draws near...
A Toxic Cocktail
This time last year, the world faced a meltdown of its financial systems and a potential depression. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, a renowned expert on the Great Depression, coordinated an…
The Untapped Energy Riches of Uzbekistan
While many Western investors remain fixated on somehow acquiring a slice of Turkmenistan's natural gas riches, despite a recent scandal over the country's actual reserves, there is another country further…
Tungsten as a Gold Substitute
... we know of several metals that have similar densities to gold, such as the heavier platinum-group metals. However, using these metals to produce fake gold is unprofitable due to…
Breadth Trying To Make Bullish Turn
While market breadth is possibly making a turn for the better, trading volume has been light on rallies. All things being equal, we would like to see volume pick up…
GDXJ - Welcome to the Party!
The Junior Gold Miner ETF (ticker: GDXJ) from Van Eck Global is now in business. Though I have a problem with putting larger silver miners in this ETF as the…
The Real Deal
In March 2009, US equities approached secular cheapness. Price-to-peak-earnings reached a multiple of 8.9x versus prior lows of 7.4x in 1974 and 3.0x in 1932. The Dow/Gold ratio, however, remained…
Has the Dow Put in a New 52 Week High? Absolutely Not
A lot of noise has been made each time the Dow traded to a new 52 week high and the same chorus was once again sung when it put in…
