"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •572 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •20 mins | 2,666.50 | -211.60 | -7.35% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 60.54 | -0.09 | -0.15% |
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Gasoline •19 mins | 1.824 | +0.004 | +0.21% |
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Ethanol •572 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •572 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 572 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 572 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 65.44 | -0.15 | -0.23% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 6.479 | -0.321 | -4.72% | |
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Heating Oil • 12 mins | 2.501 | -0.067 | -2.62% |
Markets / Other
Dollar
In the short term it's possible that the precious metal sector might take a small hit due to the dollar rallying. If this happens we would view it as a…
Losing Control Of Monetary Policy
The Fed and BOE easing actions simply are not working to restore faith in the credit markets. Credit conditions based on LIBOR are worse now than in the August and…
Nuclear Bond Implosion Ahead
The US Fed's measure for long term inflationary expectations may keep it from dropping rates much further, potentially setting off a 'nuclear' bond-price implosion.
Time to Buy Financials?
Looking over the news this morning, it seems the big story in the US market is an $11.5 billion "capital injection" for subprime-beleaguered bank UBS. The European bank will raise…
Credit Crunch Contagion
Make no mistake about it, the credit crunch is still spreading and contagious, and will remain that way until all debt that needs to be purged from the system has…
What The Market Knows
As market practitioners we are more concerned with the markets reaction to news than the news itself. Yesterday's announcement that Variable Mortgage resets could be frozen for 5-years is telling…
The US Economy: We've Got The Boom But What About The Bust?
The very notion that manufacturing is now such a small part of the economy it can be ignored when considering the economy's direction is pure balderdash that is largely derived…
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Technically Precious with Merv
Something tells me there is a big surprise ahead. How big, which way and when, well that's what makes life interesting.
Honest Money Gold and Silver Report: Market Wrap
Gold was up $11.10 to close the week out at $800.20 for a gain of +1.24%. During intraday trading on Monday, price broke below the bottom trend line, but recovered…
