"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 •14 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% |
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Diverse Asset Class Correlation and Leverage
Fund managers and investors have been puzzled why prices across a wide spectrum of assets moved together last week - namely, down. I think it has everything to do with…
Monday Market Update
Today we look at how market participants are reacting to recent "liquidity injections" by the world's leading central banks.
A Bull Market in Fools
...All financial bubbles need the rabble to pile in before the bubble goes bang. But something's amiss this time round...
Whats Next and Why I Like Cool
After a couple weeks of volatility in the markets, many investors have begun to ask themselves: "What's next?" Will the market slide further? Will the economy be affected? Or ...
Don't Focus on the US Dollar
Performance of gold is often associated with that of the US dollar. Yes, gold is denominated in the dollar and mostly moves in the opposite direction of the dollar index.…
Technically Precious with Merv
You'll sleep better at nights if you just focused on the intermediate or longer term trends. As an example, both moving averages of gold remained positive as did the price…
Psyched out: The Media and Market Bottoms
Despite the re-test of the August price low in the S&P 500 last week, the market's main breadth indicators have already shown us that the internal low is already in.…
Buy Mode
Well, it's sure been a wild ride over the past several days. And people are acting like this is something different - but it's not. It's the normal process of…
Turning Points
The intermediate decline which began at 1555 on the SPX and which is caused by the bottoming of the 4.5-year cycle may be just about over. Preliminary positive signs are…
Blame Central Banks for Sinking Share Markets
For years I have been warning readers that monetary expansion would inevitably bring recession. This, I forewarned, would probably occur when central banks decided to apply the monetary brakes. This…
