"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •571 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 2,873.00 | +131.70 | +4.80% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 60.97 | -0.10 | -0.16% |
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Gasoline •18 mins | 1.837 | -0.014 | -0.74% |
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Ethanol •571 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •571 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 571 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 571 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 65.77 | -0.11 | -0.17% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 6.255 | +0.980 | +18.58% | |
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Heating Oil • 15 mins | 2.523 | +0.094 | +3.88% |
Markets / Other
Marking to Myths!
Things are unfolding in an interesting manner and it is the ebb and flow of the issues into and out of the financial Media's reporting of them that provide us…
Where's Gold Headed Next?
Is gold going to spike (in the style of the April-May 2006 run) to an all-time high of $850, or pullback to the lower $700's? A pullback now would be…
MLEC - Trying to Turn a Sows Ear into a Silk Purse?
...the establishment of the MLEC does not seem to do much in terms of addressing the key underlying issue ? rising mortgage defaults and falling residential real estate prices. Merrill…
Super SIVs - A Fraudulent Attempt at Concealment
All indications are the Super-SIV bailout is nothing but a delay tactic that simply cannot work. Furthermore, there is another crisis waiting in the wings: commercial real estate. There is…
Why the Housing Slump Isn't Over Yet
For years, I bored my friends with talk that housing was in for a downturn. No one believed me, and people urged me to buy in before I was shut…
The US Economy: Greenspan and Bernanke Have a Lot to Answer For
Because I haven't read Greenspan's book The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World I'll have to confine myself to those parts that some commentators have fastened on to…
The Carry Trade Challenges
Although the spread between the SPX and the USDJPY had widened after, and before (in anticipation of), the Fed's rate cut on 9/18/2007, the daily rate of change of the…
The Panic Window Approaches
The markets have now completed a close resemblance of a 1987 signature in the trade as month end approaches. That being said, based on the strength of the move in…
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Weekly Technical Information and Ratings
Technically Precious with Merv
Gold moved into new highs this week but not with any amount of enthusiasm. 15,312,000 ounces of gold sold short. Is that true? Boy, if someone had to cover that…
