"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •570 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 2,741.30 | +164.40 | +6.38% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 61.07 | +1.71 | +2.88% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 1.851 | +0.034 | +1.86% |
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Ethanol •571 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •570 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 570 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 570 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 1 day | 65.88 | +1.82 | +2.84% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 5.275 | +0.230 | +4.56% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.429 | +0.062 | +2.61% |
Markets / Other
Technical Market Report
NASDAQ volume of issues rising in price hit its all time high in early August. Since then it has been falling and, during the past week, fell while prices were…
The Black Swan
It is easy to take the credit disruptions of today and straight line the present into the future. But it might be more useful to see how the previous black…
"Didn't Really Get It"
I found it ironic that during the same week Alan Greenspan admitted he "Didn't Really Get It" when it came to the risks associated with subprime lending, Chairman Bernanke publicly…
Position Update
Our system moved back into Buy mode during the week, the market is at one of those points where it's undecided on which way it wants to go and this…
Signs Of The Times
The main influence on the stock market has been the change in the credit markets. The most blatant speculations seem to fail when the yield curve reverses to steepening. That…
BLS Removes All Doubt
The employment situation is bound to get worse. Recently, Countrywide Financial announced that it will lay off 20,000 workers, which is about 20% of its staff. Challenger, Gray & Christmas…
CNBC Squawkbox Europe
Last week I warned you not to get too bearish even though I forecast the next high would be 12 trading days from the low. The technical extremes that were…
Gold: The Collapse of the Vanities
Today, there are parallels with the corrections following the Russian debt default in 1998, the collapse of the Long Term Capital Management hedge fund, the Latin American crisis of the…
Why the Fed is Such a Lousy Wizard of Oz
The Jackson Hole Resort serves as the Federal Reserve's equivalent of the Emerald City, as Fed governors and presidents meet with central bankers and economists from around the world to…
HUI Upleg Cycles
Such extreme swings in sentiment, going from abject despair to guarded hope in less than a month, are really challenging for PM-stock investors and speculators. Were the markets right about…
