"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 •10 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
Gold Breakout
What a terrific start to the year for gold! When you see a breakout to new highs on the 1st trading day of the year like this for a commodity…
Stagflation Jungle: "Survival of the Fleetest Wealth" Era
Quarterly Strategy Comments & Updates - January 2, 2007
ETFs and Bear Markets: Unsuitable Bedfellows?
Buy and hold!, shout stalwart indexers, with many more on Wall Street joining the chorus. But is it appropriate investment advice for all market climates? Can risk not be systematically…
Gold Roars -- Euro Decaptitates Dollar
Once the dollar falls below that last support level, nation after nation will stop selling exports for dollars. The dollar will no longer be the reserve currency of the world,…
2008: Dollars, Gold and the Tasty New Whopper Sauce
...Want a racing certainty for the coming year? Central banks everywhere will either cut or hold interest rates, making the currency markets a suck of ever-shrinking real worth...
Social Implications of a Significant Economic Downturn
I think many readers will agree that, with the US housing bubble deflating and credit markets deteriorating, many of the things that we have previously taken for granted (easy money/credit…
Warnings Signs of a Bear Market? Mirror Images Between 2000 and 2007
It was the 1st quarter of 2000. We were still, for all anyone knew, happily enjoying ourselves within a long-standing bull market. Of course, not even worried prognosticators knew it…
The "Commodity Super Cycle" - Ready to Rumble in 2008
The latest commodities boom began at the end of 2001, when China's industrial revolution was just starting. China's voracious appetite for raw materials for its industrialization has made it the…
The Domino Effect
There's no reason to be short the stock market from a seasonal perspective anymore. And with all the giveaways these days, along with apparent ample money supply, again, if contemplating…
Industrial Commodities Update
There's a good chance that the price of copper will drop to lower levels over the next few weeks, but the price decline from the early-October high of around US$3.80/pound…
