"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •681 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,991.80 | -99.60 | -4.76% |
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WTI Crude •20 hours | 105.42 | +4.25 | +4.20% |
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Gasoline •20 hours | 3.702 | +0.096 | +2.67% |
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Ethanol •682 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •681 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 681 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 681 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 19 hours | 109.26 | +3.54 | +3.35% | |
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Natural Gas • 20 hours | 2.960 | +0.066 | +2.28% | |
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Heating Oil • 20 hours | 4.053 | +0.148 | +3.78% |
Markets / Other
Merk Economic Calendar: Week Ahead in U.S. Financial Markets (October 20-24 2008)
After the heaviest week of Fed talk and macro data releases in recent memory, the calendar will see a very light week of rhetoric and economic releases.
Gold Investments Market Update
Many hedge fund managers are under severe pressure to liquidate positions as banks request more collateral to back funds' borrowing. Many hedge funds, including some of the largest, have gone…
Deflation Scare the Perfect Camouflage
The deflation scare currently hovering over the entire market, particularly in the metals and commodities sectors, has been brutal. But the key question today is whether this "scare" will evolve…
Does This Say the Market Could Have a Short Term Upside Move?
On the short term, the Inverted NYSE Declining Volume is trending up. This means that the aggregate dollar volume of stocks being sold off is continuing to decrease. This opens…
Merk Market Outlook: Reduced Gasoline Prices Provide Relief, But May Not Change Consumer Outlook
Real personal consumption looks to be on a pace to decline -3.0% in Q3'08 and will almost certainly see a second consecutive negative quarter during the final three months of…
Not Your Grandfather's Depression
The current stock market crash has spurred a vital national debate about the causes and catalysts of the Great Depression. The dominant school of thought believes that the stubborn refusal…
Stock Bear Extremes
Everyone involved in the markets, including me, is trying to wrap their minds around so many unprecedented developments coming at us so fast. From a supposedly free-market government incessantly meddling…
Marco Polo Goes West
You can't blame the king of Persia for printing up money no one could trust. His neighbors in China were doing the same, after all, and with the same inevitable…
U.S. in Crisis Mode -- What's Next?
The impending calamity - mass housing foreclosures, failing banks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in ashes, millions of personal bankruptcies - is so dire... most people can't even conceive of…
Gold and Deflation
The question has been pouring in: "What happens to gold during a deflation? Of course, many of my readers are equally if not more interested in what happens to silver…
