"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •644 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •14 mins | 2,028.60 | -38.90 | -1.88% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 97.85 | +3.44 | +3.64% |
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Gasoline •12 mins | 3.044 | +0.038 | +1.26% |
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Ethanol •644 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •644 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 644 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 644 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 97.61 | +2.86 | +3.02% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.732 | +0.008 | +0.29% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 3.948 | +0.139 | +3.66% |
Markets / Other
Junior Mining Company Risk
Soon after the initial fallout of the derivatives mess last fall, which several prominent resource sector writers such as Jim Sinclair and Greg McCoach (and I) have been railing against…
Greenspan's Conundrum Bites Back
...If Washington and the US consumer can't borrow cheap at the long end, then they'll just go to the short end for cheap money instead...
Junior Golds and CDNX
While recent activity in the gold stock sector has caused many of its battle-hardened investors to capitulate, the tried and true speculators still holding strong in the junior-gold-stock realm are…
The Death Of Gold Revisited
A couple of weeks back I put out an article saying that "The Shoeshine Boy" principle may have flagged a major top in the gold market. The Times cover trumpeting…
Credit Derivatives Dangers In 2008 and Beyond (A Primer)
The credit derivatives market is roughly 30 times the size of the subprime mortgage market - and potentially even more at risk in the coming years.
Free Markets - Do They Exist
Interest rates are going down. House prices are going down. Since the beginning of the year the stock market has been going down. But what's going up? Food prices are…
Commodity Market Summary
May 1, 2008 Commodity Market Summary
The Velocity of Floral Inflation
But after all of this, you suddenly realize that the money that was taxed away comes roaring back into the economy as government spending, making a mockery of the whole…
Reflections and Black Swans
What pessimists on the U.S. stock market today miss is that the performance of the stock market is not directly tied to the performance of the economy in the short…
Second-Guessing the Fed
...'Buy the rumor, sell the news' applies to all markets. Not least when the Fed is committed to reflating housing and stocks...
