"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 •570 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
Fear in the Streets - A Dress Rehearsal
The recent turmoil has affected virtually all of the markets worldwide; the financial markets, the commodities, including the precious metals and base metals, the currencies, the ETF's of the emerging…
Stock Indexes at Key Make-Or-Break Level
The stock indexes (most particularly the SPX) are at or near key levels, which - if moved above - would confirm a 10 and 20-26 week cycle combined low in…
Tantalum - A Tantalizing Commodity Investment Opportunity
I'm sure you've heard of gold, silver, platinum, palladium, uranium and perhaps even molybdenum but have you ever heard of vanadium, cadmium, lithium, rhenium, niobium or tantalum?
Gold Thoughts
With U.S. mortgage defaults up 90+% from a year ago, collapse of U.S. mortgage market is being felt around the world. U.S. housing starts have fallen to a ten year…
Anatomy of a Bottom
After going through all the technical and sentiment data available, I am more convinced than ever that a major bottom was formed in the markets last week. Below I present…
The August 2007 Panic - What Happened and Why
The bad news from the U.S. housing and subprime mortgage market is far from over in that, while the U.S. new housing market has likely bottomed out, there is still…
Market Discussion and Update of the HUI
Precious metal stocks have been hit hard due to a liquidity event. Owners of bad debt have to liquidate assets that have real value in order to meet their debt…
Liquidity Can't Solve Insolvency
The big, big problem with the whole subprime/CDO/Armageddon market thing is that while the values on these assets can go down, the debts incurred to buy the assets don't.
Lacker: Heck No, We Won't Go (Just Yet?)
Lacker's comments suggest to me that the Bernanke FOMC is more reluctant to cut the federal funds target in the face of financial market turmoil than was the Greenspan FOMC.…
TedBits
Do not think that because the credit markets are seizing up that there is no money in the financial system, there is. Bank and Corporate balance sheets are strong. Money…
