"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •686 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •14 mins | 1,951.70 | -7.90 | -0.40% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 97.52 | -0.74 | -0.75% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 3.422 | -0.066 | -1.88% |
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Ethanol •686 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •686 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 686 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 686 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 104.03 | -0.99 | -0.94% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.013 | +0.009 | +0.30% | |
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Heating Oil • 14 mins | 3.861 | -0.086 | -2.17% |
Markets / Other
Mini Inflation Blow-Off
Coming into September the markets had the potential to experience either a deflation scare or a mini blow-off in inflation-related plays. Within the first few trading days of September it…
Inflation Pressures Rising Again
Several months ago I began to lay out an asset allocation road map. In a nutshell, the US Dollar remains the key asset to follow, and as long as the…
Agri-Food Thoughts
Bump and grind economic numbers might suggest that the Western economies, including the U.S., have seen the worst of the economic slide. Despite that appearance of an economic bottom, that…
Trade Wars and Protectionism are Not Free Trade
Free trade with all and entangling alliances with none has always been the best policy in dealing with other countries on the world stage. This is the policy of friendship,…
Stock Market Status
The SPX has finally come to our 'big picture' bull trigger point, above the monthly EMA 20. Success at this level means we will no longer be able to deny…
The Giant Error of Pessimism
It's axiomatic that when it comes to economic forecasting, at a top the majority will extrapolate the good times indefinitely into the future, and at a bottom they will extrapolate…
The Ratchet Effect
It appears our self-serving bureaucracy thinks they can keep fooling the markets indefinitely, where now they have resorted to attempting to ratchet stocks higher against precious metals. Of course the…
Can You Put Your Daddy On The Phone?
I don't think economists should be allowed to look at the ticker. Economists who tell us what the market thinks the data mean are useless. I want to know what…
Mixed Equity Markets And Weaker Energy Prices
Concerns that U.S. equity markets may be overbought are helping to drive down demand for stocks overnight. In addition, traders are lightening up positions ahead of this week's Federal Reserve…
America Digs Deeper Into Debt
It's amazing but true. Even after all we've been through and all we have supposedly learned about the danger of being over leveraged and borrowing more than you can pay…
