"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •577 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 2,121.60 | -496.70 | -18.97% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 65.21 | -0.21 | -0.32% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 1.923 | +0.003 | +0.15% |
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Ethanol •577 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •577 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 577 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 577 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 1 day | 69.32 | -0.27 | -0.39% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 4.354 | +0.436 | +11.13% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.736 | +0.150 | +5.81% |
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Is the Party Over?
Many traders and investors boldly proclaim that technical analysis, such as that provided by Elliott Wave and others, is akin to voodoo and advise investors to stick to the fundamentals.…
Cheerleaders Will Face Reality, Eventualy
When listening to the typical, television-based, Wall Street cheerleader work themselves up into a bull market frenzy, one is tempted to wonder if they ever bother to compare the movie…
Dow and Gold: Very Different Bull' Markets
... with the Dow threatening new bear market lows and even gold enduring a sustained correction, let's again check in to see which is real and which is 'Memorex', this…
June Conference Board Data Augurs Poorly for the Unemployment Rate
T.S. Eliot might have been off by a couple of months. It looks as though June might turn out to be the cruelest month instead of April. Earlier this month,…
Agri-Food Thoughts
... the acreage of U.S. farm land is shrinking. Same is true for China, and much of the rest of the world. Higher Agri-Food prices may dampen the negative slope…
Fed Meeting: The Long-Lasting Costs of Inflation
...The true cost of beating inflation vs. the cost of letting it run...
Exchange Controls Are Proposed For the U.S.A.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, tasked with finding controls over speculation in the commodities markets, revealed the drafts of three bills that would sharply curtail the activities of financial investors in the…
Economic Egomaniacs
Now, total government taxation consumes half of all incomes, all of which goes around and around until my head is spinning and I wonder how it is possible that any…
Mining Mergers and Three Wealth Creation Tools
The hottest area for mergers and acquisitions has moved from financial firms to acquiring metals mines. Using the illustration of a $100 billion mega-acquisition, we will show how this strategy…
Picture du Jour: Sun Rising Over Japanese Stocks
Scanning the globe for investment destinations can be a daunting task. When it comes to stock markets, however, relative strength analysis serves a useful purpose of highlighting under- or outperforming…
