"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •733 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 1,624.40 | -18.70 | -1.14% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 68.99 | +0.44 | +0.64% |
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Gasoline •12 mins | 3.016 | +0.012 | +0.41% |
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Ethanol •733 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •733 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 733 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 733 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 72.52 | +0.53 | +0.74% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.225 | -0.020 | -0.62% | |
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Heating Oil • 14 mins | 3.325 | +0.026 | +0.79% |
Markets / Other
Stock Trends, Charts and Commentary
Noon Time Update: We will look at seven charts this Noon time, based on where a number of indexes were at the close yesterday and what the VIX was telling…
Stock Market Panic In Progress
Price managers have been able to engineer Monday morning stick saves well since the onset of the dubbed 'credit crunch', but they may not be so lucky this coming week.…
Well, Bless Poole's Beautiful Hide!
So why does the US central bank insist in lending fresh cash to the money markets through its open-market operations? The Fed's put in $76 billion over the last week,…
Duration Mismatch at Sentinel
Sentinel thought it could "accommodate the liquidity needs of FCM clients" by holding a mere 40% to 50% of its assets in overnight repos. Presumably the rest (50%-60%) could be…
Prime Interest Rates and the Market Value of Gold
The question foremost on investors minds is whether a turbulent stock market warrants halting interest rate increases or, in the case of the US, decreasing rates to resuscitate the Real…
Dont Underestimate the U.S. Consumer? The Global Economy Is Strong?
These are two common refrains from mainstream economists who never foresaw a recession until it already had been declared by the NBER. Today we received some information that ought to…
Fingers of Instability Returns!
The money and credit machines are generating the constant theft of purchasing power of currencies in deposits, wherever they may be held, (savings accounts, money market accounts, Bonds, interest rate…
Lessons from History: The Simple Path to Resource Riches
At the risk of sounding like I'm on happy pills, I'm going to use four charts to demonstrate a simple path you can use to make a lot of money…
Autumn in August?
...In a credit crunch, it's often said, cash is king. In which case, gold's just been crowned emperor...
Marking to Model...
We are waiting until we see how the global credit crunch concerns work themselves through the market. At this time, we are negatively biased on all the major indexes.
