"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •583 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •14 mins | 2,099.40 | +28.80 | +1.39% |
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WTI Crude •15 hours | 63.55 | +0.26 | +0.41% |
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Gasoline •15 hours | 1.953 | +0.027 | +1.38% |
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Ethanol •583 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •583 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 583 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 583 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 14 hours | 68.05 | +0.50 | +0.74% | |
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Natural Gas • 15 hours | 3.422 | -0.087 | -2.48% | |
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Heating Oil • 15 hours | 2.413 | +0.020 | +0.84% |
Markets / Other
A Golden Future for Silver
One of the most important aspects of investing is that it is genuinely hard work. There are no shortcuts. Taking it easy for a while simply isn't an option if…
Gold Thoughts
What if buyers of real Gold are on strike? Arabianbusiness.com reported on 9 March that in Abu Dhabi February sales volume of precious metals was off by 20%. Commodity News…
Reducing Foreclosure at the Price of Delinquency?
The surprising news to me is actually the not-well-publicized report by Mortgages Bankers Association released March 6 here, indicating that delinquency rates rose to 5.82% in Q4 2007, while the…
Central Band(k) Aid Unlikely to Stick
Almost three months the day (since December 11) after the Federal Reserve inaugurated its Term Auction Facility (TAF), the central bank invents a new liquidity driving mechanism calling it Term…
Definitive Proof The Bear Is Alive And Well
And these traders have been doing a miraculous job of painting the tape in spite of a continual supply of bad news hitting the wires everyday. What's more, if they…
Gold Stock Scenarios
We have two potential scenarios in mind for the gold sector, the first of which can aptly be labeled "the 1973 model" because it involves the financial markets behaving in…
Beware the Ides of March
Volatility is opportunity and we are seeing it in spades. The markets are jumping and thus creating juicy opportunities for the prepared investor. Currencies, interest rates, stocks and commodities are…
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Weekly Technical Information and Ratings
Technically Precious with Merv
GOLD: Despite some volatile daily moves, on a chart this past week it looked like a sideways trend, even possibly a topping action. Let's see.
"V" for Vendetta
It is abundantly clear that flexible, floating-fiat-currencies are neither practical nor stable. Nor do they foster sustainable long-term growth, or full employment. Furthermore, they incite - rather than contain inflation.
