"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •573 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 2,673.00 | +135.70 | +5.35% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 62.56 | +0.17 | +0.27% |
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Gasoline •22 mins | 1.876 | +0.011 | +0.60% |
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Ethanol •573 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •573 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 573 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 573 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 67.66 | +0.09 | +0.13% | |
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Natural Gas • 12 mins | 6.475 | -0.479 | -6.89% | |
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Heating Oil • 14 mins | 2.625 | -0.021 | -0.80% |
Markets / Other
Daisy-Chain
The financial crisis took another giant leap this week. Credit insurer ("financial guarantor") Ambac lost its AAA rating (from Fitch), in what will mark the onset of a devastating run…
Aggressive Moves ... To Cash?
Market at open on the next available trading day, the following ticker symbols will be sold: ADM, AMPH, AWH, AXS, BG, CB, CCE, COST, CTGX, EIX, LNT, PBG, RDK, and…
Signs of the Times
Last spring we described that the bear started as an outbreak of "Rational Exuberance" exhausted itself and failed. Initially it was technical deterioration and that ran until a couple of…
Real Silver Highs 2
Gold is definitely not the only commodity enjoying a very happy new year. The strong global investment demand for precious metals has spilled over into silver as well. Just last…
Gold: How High is High?
Now that the sound of cork-popping and other signs of celebrating the New Year, and the new record highs in the price of gold, are dying down, some questions arise…
"Oh, Poor Me!" The Stock Holders Lament
...All investing is risky - all the way down to zero. And if government steps in to bail out a business, it should've gone to the wall in the first…
CNBC Powerlunch Europe
I wasn't watching crude the last four weeks due to working on the 2008 forecast for stocks. But had I been I'd be short now. As I'm sure your regular…
Thrill Ride
2008 is going to be one for the record books. Like a roller coaster or thrill ride at an amusement park, the economic and financial ups and downs will thrill…
The Tragedy Of The Us Stockmarket...
The large top area now forming in the main US stockmarket indices is now approaching completion. Given the horrifying fundamentals it is a wonder that they haven't broken down and…
The Futility of the Economic Weatherman
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has no such qualms about shame, and said he is ready to take "substantive additional action", which the media and markets took as saying, 'Rates…
