"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •564 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 2,368.80 | +46.10 | +1.98% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 59.10 | -0.24 | -0.40% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.784 | -0.001 | -0.08% |
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Ethanol •564 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •564 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 564 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 564 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 63.84 | -0.29 | -0.45% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.657 | +0.554 | +17.85% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.273 | +0.036 | +1.59% |
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Asset Allocation for the Upcoming Year
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Friday's Employment Report: Reaction May Be Telling
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Best Quotes of November 2006
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Milton Friedman and Monetarism: Where He Went Wrong
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Stock Market: CNBC Report
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Call Options, Leaps and Warrants - 101
With the Precious Metals markets heating up once again, and investors, both individual and professionals, considering how to invest appropriately, we thought it would be timely to discuss objectively some…
E-Economic Newsletter
get mail from people who lament the fact that they, too, have tried to educate their bonehead friends and relatives about gold and silver, but they were, predictably, rebuffed. Our…
The Stock Market: Warning Shots and Spin
We don't think an important top is yet in place in the US stock market because the NDX/Dow ratio (a reliable leading indicator) hit new multi-month highs as recently as…
The "Carry" Trade in U.S. Housing Looks to be Over
Perhaps house prices will rebound. Perhaps, but the current supply-demand situation suggests otherwise. As Chart 2 shows, there still is a yawning gap between changes in total single-family homes sold…
Weekly Wrap-up: Inflation Risks, Inverted Curve, Slowing Growth
But the weakening dollar is Inflationary, which in turn works to raise the prices of Oil and Gold (among other things, charted below). And rising Oil and Gold prices are…
