"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 •19 hours | 63.55 | +0.26 | +0.41% |
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Gasoline •19 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 • 18 hours | 68.05 | +0.50 | +0.74% | |
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Natural Gas • 19 hours | 3.422 | -0.087 | -2.48% | |
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Heating Oil • 19 hours | 2.413 | +0.020 | +0.84% |
Markets / Other
CNBC Squawkbox Europe
Copper has topped, there is an exhaustion high and has just completed building a secondary high to create a 17 month distribution pattern. That should allow for the market to…
More Generous Inflation Protection
But current retirees can relax, as 'The lower inflation-proofing would only apply to future entitlements. Past entitlement would continue to enjoy the more generous inflation protection.' Hahaha! 'More generous'!
Is $100 Oil Cheap?
Many market pundits wrote that $40 per bbl crude was expensive, that $60 crude was unsustainable, that $80 crude would never happen. But here we sit with oil over $90…
The Robert Rubin and Ben Bernanke Death Embrace
Rubin: Well, when markets were sky high and Long Term Capital threatened to bring them down a little, you lowered rates, and equities skyrocketed to new highs. That was back…
Gold as an Alternative Investment
Gold has had a great run lately. As I indicated in one of my previous blogs, if you look at the long term monthly close chart of gold, $700 provides…
Myths, Markets and Manipulators: The Real Deal on the Homebuilders
Why state what should be the obvious to many? Because, many don't get it. I hear advice such as, "Is now the time to dabble in the home builders?" or…
Gold in the Perfect Storm - Got Leverage?
Investors in gold and silver have been richly rewarded the last few weeks as they have exploded to the upside. As we write this on Wednesday morning, gold is sitting…
The Ex Ante Factor: Follow the Bouncing Banks
The news flow on financials has been downright dreadful. Write downs, SIVs and commercial paper risk, dividend risk, capital ratio risk, balance sheet risk, CEOs resigning, etc. No one wants…
Caught Red Handed Killing the Dollar
So Mr. Mishkin joins Alan Greenspan, running around saying, 'It's not my fault! It's not my fault!', when the whole world spent all that time watching him and the Fed…
Gold Thoughts
As this week's chart portrays, Gold has provided a far higher return than U.S. paper equities. Am really starting to feel some sorrow for those that have been duped by…
