"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •581 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 2,176.70 | -32.10 | -1.45% |
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WTI Crude •30 mins | 65.14 | +1.93 | +3.05% |
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Gasoline •30 mins | 1.965 | +0.067 | +3.55% |
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Ethanol •581 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •581 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 581 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 581 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 14 mins | 68.69 | +1.36 | +2.02% | |
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Natural Gas • 30 mins | 3.465 | +0.154 | +4.65% | |
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Heating Oil • 30 mins | 2.470 | +0.061 | +2.52% |
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Words from the (Investment) Wise for the Week That Was (November 10 - 16, 2008)
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Technical Market Report
Many records have been broken over the past few weeks so any conclusions drawn from past performance are suspect. That said, there have never been more than 2 retests of…
The Only Cure for a Bubble...
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Merk Economic Calendar: Week Ahead in U.S. Financial Markets (November 17-21 2008)
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The Next Bull Market
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TedBits
As the G7 banking systems continue their plunge into the abyss, so do the world's economies. Public servants, governments and central banks are firing every policy option they have to…
Shielding the World from Financial Folly
Apart from the fact that the English philosopher Herbert Spencer said, 'The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools', the…
Gold Mining Stocks, ETF, Outperforming Market
I have been watching the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (AMEX: GDX) closely since its October low at 15.74 and I am very impressed with its pattern and relative strength…
The Humpty Dumpty Economy
Before the current economic crisis became apparent to all, the most popular fable used to describe America's uncanny economic resiliency was the story of Goldilocks. It was argued that our…
Gold ETF Impact 4
Amidst our seemingly endless slog through today's dark sentiment wastelands plaguing the markets, we have a birthday to celebrate. Four years ago this week, a revolutionary ETF was launched that…
