"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •639 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,983.20 | -6.50 | -0.33% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 111.54 | +11.42 | +11.41% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 3.288 | +0.197 | +6.36% |
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Ethanol •639 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •639 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 639 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 639 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 1 day | 109.03 | +7.87 | +7.78% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 2.800 | -0.019 | -0.67% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 4.361 | +0.304 | +7.50% |
Markets / Other
Watch the Stock/Bond Ratio - Poll Results
The stock/bond ratio may very well have some further backing and filling to do before registering an 'all clear' turning point. But let's closely watch the spreads and other risk…
Inflation or Deflation?
The following interview, conducted by Louis James, a senior analyst and editor with Casey Research, appeared in the March 08' edition of Casey's International Speculator.
Weekly Wrap-Up: Employment, Stocks, Bonds, And Value
The Underlying theme that we've been pursuing in this space since December has been whether and to what extent policymakers can work to offset the negative effects of the credit…
Pivotal Events
Overall, this seems to be fitting into our view formed in the worst of the January panic. This was that the market had suffered a classic 55-day hit and that…
BondWorks
The long end of the Treasury Bond market continues to outperform the shorter maturities as the stock market seems to have turned the corner for now. The good people at…
Did Greenspan Have to Cut the Fed Funds Rate as Much?
In today's Financial Times, Greenspan is generously given yet another chance to defend his legacy. Greenspan's argument that it was not his doing that set off the U.S. housing bubble…
No Bull? Bonds Can Trounce Stocks (and Beat Cash Too)
We have long argued that the great majority of investors under-utilize bond funds. Data suggest that at most only about 10-15% of the average investor's portfolio is usually kept in…
Will the US Go Protectionist?
It's a ritual that repeats every four years, first during the US Presidential primaries and then later the election itself - the candidates stomp the prairies, and industrial heartlands, with…
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Weekly Technical Information and Ratings
Technically Precious with Merv
Although the week started horrible it ended on an up note. Now the question is, "will the up note continue"? The step manner of the recent decline should be fodder…
