"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 •10 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% |
Markets / Other
Merk Economic Calendar: Week Ahead In US Financial Markets (June 23-27 2008)
The upcoming week will be dominated by the publication of the FOMC monetary statement on Wed. Later that night Vice-Chair Donald Kohn will be addressing an ECB monetary conference, which…
SLV Silver ETF
One of the reasons investors originally liked SLV so much is silver consumers aggressively lobbied the SEC to kill it. The Silver Users Association wrote some fascinating letters to the…
Silver -- Two Sides of the Story
What drives the price of silver? Certainly it is a function of buying and selling pressure, and primarily, this price setting mechanism takes place on the COMEX. However, so much…
The Fed Unreserved
Throughout history, governments have always used crises to justify blatant power grabs. Often the crisis subsides, but the expanded government powers remain. In America this week, the tendency came into…
Bank-Risk and Balance Sheets
...Ninety-five per cent of the credit created by UK banks in May went to buying back loans that they'd already sold to other investors...
Merk Market Outlook: US Current Account -- Still A Drag On The Dollar
Lost amidst recent data on inflation, the rise in oil prices, a deepening crisis in the housing market and the uncanny ability of Goldman-Sachs to outperform market expectations was the…
The Thin Red White and Blue Line
The issue with leveraged investments extends well beyond bad loans from the so called sub-prime crisis. It's now the global credit crisis. Everyone is leveraged. Consumer debt is at an…
Is the LEI Biased Upwards Because of Mammoth Decline in Fed Treasury Holdings
The Fed is a price-insensitive buyer/seller of U.S. Treasury securities. But other participants in the U.S. Treasury securities market are more price or interest rate sensitive. It stands to reason…
Not All Metals are Created Equal - Metals Review for 2008 and 2009 (Part I)
Oftentimes I talk to investors and I realize that they treat metals as a group. Particularly in the subset of base metals, most point out the price action of copper…
Fed Ache
The Euro vs Dollar Currency War is back on the front burner. For years, it used to be a cold war, but now it's hot again - and Bernie can't…
