"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •683 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,970.20 | -21.60 | -1.08% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 107.75 | +2.33 | +2.21% |
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Gasoline •29 mins | 3.726 | +0.024 | +0.65% |
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Ethanol •683 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •683 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 683 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 683 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 111.27 | +2.01 | +1.84% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.022 | +0.062 | +2.09% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 4.104 | +0.050 | +1.24% |
Markets / Other
The Real Long-Run Value of Gold, Part I
Gold must hit $2,200 an ounce to match its real peak of Jan. 1980. Or so almost everyone thinks...
X-Rays That Show What Can't Be Seen on the Stock Market's Surface?
Underlying conditions showed improvement yesterday. Improvement, but no signs of emerging "Green conditions" yet. For day traders, that tells them that the intra-day bias is moving toward the upside, so…
"Bad Bank" Does Not Trump "Bad" Market
Bear markets are cruel. They continue to give investors reason to hope as they destroy years and years of hard work. The latest reason to hope is speculation the government…
Today's Interest Rates are Unreal!
I'm often asked the question if rising interest rates will cause downward pressure on gold prices. The answer is yes, but only if those rates are rising in real terms…
How Obama Will Influence Energy Stocks
One might think the United States would be charging hard on energy security as well as border and other kinds of security in its Global War on Terror campaign. Not…
Is America Broke Part III - A Solution for the Financial Crisis
Why is the most advanced economy in the world buckling at the knees, acting like a punch weary fighter? How did the largest creditor nation on earth become the largest…
Does a Down Moving VIX Always Mean That the Market Will Move Up?
As long as the VIX is moving down, and the C-RSI is moving up while in Negative Territory, then the S&P will move up on an intra-day basis ... and…
Singing the Middle Class Blues
Nearly everyone agrees that it's become harder to maintain a middle class lifestyle, but there's no consensus about who or what is mostly to blame. Among middle class respondents, about…
Risk Management or Risk Manipulation
Public perception is that Wall Street didn't do much risk management over the past decade, or perhaps longer, resulting in the profound credit crisis that wiped out many financial firms…
Patching Up the World With Golden Glue
The word 'Gaaaahhh!' escapes my throat, as all of this was BEFORE all the new promises of massive new deficit spending! Trillions of dollars of federal deficit spending per year,…
