"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •448 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,476.40 | -29.70 | -1.97% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 64.81 | +1.40 | +2.21% |
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Gasoline •12 mins | 2.011 | +0.012 | +0.61% |
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Ethanol •448 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •448 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 448 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 448 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 69.14 | +1.51 | +2.23% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.874 | +0.021 | +0.74% | |
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Heating Oil • 12 mins | 2.375 | +0.047 | +2.01% |
Markets / Other
Credit Extreme Emotion
For the last 11 days, MBH Commodities' Daily Sentiment Indicator (DSI) has recorded a 90% or higher bullish reading for the S&P500 index. This is the highest 10 day average…
Gold, Silver and Copper
To these eyes (and I try to remain impartial) the metals offer conflicting signals as to the direction of economic growth (or lack thereof). Taking into account the stock market's…
Gold-Silver Ratio and the Outlook at Housing in Silver Terms
The Housing index has being discounting in Silver terms since July 2005 until the very recent changes in September 2006, but until the new trend is defined there is no…
Playing a Rebound in the Oil Sector
Oil and oil stocks proved to be great investments from around mid-2003 through to July of this year, but cycles change and over the past three months the oil sector…
Kool Aid and Krispy Kremes
Bank exposure to mortgages and home equity is now at peak levels, having risen dramatically. If you look at 1998, the total exposure to mortgages and home equity loans was…
What's Next for Gold Stocks
On Friday, the XAU closed above its 20-day moving average while breaking the downtrend line connecting its two September peaks. This serves as confirmation that the XAU and gold stocks…
Medieval Booms and Historical and Economic Amnesia
I have had some rather abusive Keynesians tell me that this is rubbish because "seventeenth century banking was too primitive for a fractional reserve system to emerge". Such critics obviously…
Stock Market: CNBC Report
The S&P 500 is currently in an exhaustion phase of this trend. This is obvious because each correction is smaller than the previous correction and you can see three ascending…
Weekly Wrap up: Snap
I often liken the market's movement to a rubber band. Sometimes it moves normally, stretching in reasonable movement both in and out. Sometimes it gets stretched to an extreme. And…
Energy Insights
Energy is the lifeblood of any economy. While the average investor out there is busy diversifying his or her portfolio in accordance with Modern Portfolio Theory and what ever other…
