"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 •15 mins | 2,741.30 | +164.40 | +6.38% |
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WTI Crude •21 hours | 61.07 | +1.71 | +2.88% |
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Gasoline •21 hours | 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 • 20 hours | 65.88 | +1.82 | +2.84% | |
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Natural Gas • 21 hours | 5.275 | +0.230 | +4.56% | |
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Heating Oil • 21 hours | 2.429 | +0.062 | +2.61% |
Markets / Other
Earnings Get Overshadowed
During the past week, the deepening problem in the mortgage market has sent the markets into turmoil. It will take a while to fully grasp the consequences of the implosion…
The Mortgage Pig in the Python
With the economy increasingly looking like it will slow down materially in the last half of the year, there is a drum beat for the Federal Reserve to cut rates.…
It's the Fundamentals Stupid
Amid the recent stock market weakness, the pundits are virtually unanimous in their claims that good underlying economic fundamentals are being trumped by irrational fear. However, if investors understood just…
Uranium Stocks
Uranium and uranium stocks have been best of breed among the commodities and commodities stocks of late. And the contrarian crowd that got an early jump on the stocks of…
Global Liquidity Defined
Financial analysts and news reporters often refer to the concept of "liquidity," as though it were a magic wand. One touch and all ills are cured. Until recently, it was…
Cold Feet and Sea Bass
...Oddly enough this change in risk appetite is occurring in what Paulson claims is "the strongest global economy I've seen in my business lifetime today". Then again if things can't…
Gold Forecaster - Global Watch
U.S. Protectionism & Capital Controls - Will the States do such a thing? Of course it would. The games played to prevent China acquiring U.S. oil companies with reserves in…
Inflation; Rotten to the Core
Inflation is a pernicious and destructive economic force. Inflation at a real-world rate of 2% or lower (preferably "zero") is tolerable for an economy. 3-5% inflation is bad but it…
Polonium, Politics and $100 Oil
...If you fear that we're only a couple of headlines away from $100 oil, be careful how you buy into Russia's huge energy reserves...
Panic in the Streets, Fear in the Air!
Did you hear that sound last week? That was the collective sound of millions of retail traders and investors screaming in fear and running, not walking, to the nearest bomb…
