"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •567 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •19 mins | 2,491.20 | +40.70 | +1.66% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 60.38 | +0.02 | +0.03% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.846 | +0.022 | +1.21% |
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Ethanol •567 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •567 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 567 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 567 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 64.98 | +0.06 | +0.09% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 4.853 | +0.946 | +24.21% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.422 | +0.084 | +3.58% |
Markets / Other
Stock Market Swoon Announces the Next Recession
Where we are now, is the start of a coming credit crunch. First the subprime lenders are getting hit. Next will be all lenders. The problem is one of values.…
Pivotal Events
Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) are a securitization of a pool of individual mortgages and the volume of issuance of BBB, or lower, soared from around $5 billion weekly in September…
Options Expiration
We remain in Buy Mode and expect the Qs to re-testing the gap set between February 26 and 27. We anticipate the Qs to consolidate and move higher to the…
Technical Market Report
Last week new lows came close to their highest levels of this decline which were reached on March 5. Seasonally next week has been weak and there is no evidence…
The Fingers of Housing Instability
Bubbles have consequences far beyond their causes when they burst. That is because they encourage irrational behavior and expectations not just in the asset that is rising in price, but…
Subprime Contagion Effects
Ominously, renewed dollar weakness has been an early Subprime Contagion Effect. Sure, the market now perceives the Fed will in the not too distant future cut rates and narrow rate…
Loans from Hell
Like a comically misplaced banana peel, the subprime mortgage industry has slipped up more than a few big names in the housing industry. But as Bill Bonner explains, when the…
A Lender Who Will
"...The bold step in finance - the market-leading decision - now comes by retreating from credit and refusing all risk..."
Three Bears, No Goldilocks - Part III - When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Katrina was a terrible tragedy, one that continues to unfold. Unlike the debris of 9/11, which was quickly cleaned up, most of New Orleans is still in shambles. The city's…
Stock Trends, Charts, and Commentary
Why is this important? Very simply ... a market that is rallying up has more stocks trending up than down, so its ratio is a positive number. The higher the…
