"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
SPX Bear Downleg
The early summer weeks of June have not been kind to the US stock markets. Across June's initial 8 trading days, the flagship S&P 500 stock index lost 4.6% of…
Oil's E-Ticket Ride!
Everyone needs someone to blame for heart failure at the pumps. The falling dollar, speculators, OPEC, Hummers, Bush, bubble this bubble that. We have all heard the rhetoric but few…
Merk Market Outlook: The Hawkish Illusion -- Calling Bernanke's Bluff
Over the past fortnight Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has engaged in "open mouth operations" to shape market expectations regarding future monetary policy out of the US Federal Reserve. Mr. Bernanke…
Commodity Market Intervention
Just a week ago gold and silver were well placed to begin a new uptrend and while they are still are, we have over the past week witnessed severe testing…
Hirami - Ready for a Bounce?
Today is day 6 in our down cycle. The Stock Barometer signals follow 5, 8, 13, 21 and sometimes 34 day Fibonacci cycles that balance with 'normal' market cycles. Knowing…
Stock Markets - Up, Down, Sideways?
Since topping out in October 2007, global stock markets have been characterized by two distinct phases: a decline through January/March this year, and then a rebound until mid-May. The predominantly…
The Oil Market and How It Will Drive Gold and Silver?
If you were a big consumer of oil, what would you do now? Airlines can't afford to run out of Avgas, so they would buy forward to protect the flow…
Gold Investments Market Update
Gold's sell off yesterday was again counterintuitive considering the action in other markets, particularly the commodity markets some of which surged to new record highs again. July gasoline made another…
End of Week Status Update
Oil continues to be a bothersome wild card that is really messing up the play in the gold miners as contraction vehicles. But as my friend Otto says, gold is…
Silver - Still No Respect
I recently returned from the Money Show in Las Vegas, where I gave three presentations. One was on the overall silver market including the importance of hard assets in a…
