"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 •10 mins | 1,478.60 | -27.50 | -1.83% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 64.90 | +1.49 | +2.35% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 2.016 | +0.017 | +0.83% |
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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 | 69.21 | +1.58 | +2.34% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.843 | -0.010 | -0.35% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.375 | +0.047 | +2.00% |
Markets / Other
Some Additional Firming?
Are we in for a soft or a hard landing? Did retail sales slow, as the data suggest, or is the underlying data quite bullish? We will look at the…
Financial Conditions
The dilemma today is that the Chinese, Japanese, Asians, oil exporters, and global finance generally, having accommodated U.S. excesses for years, will at some point face a most arduous task…
Assessing the Quality of the Equity Rally from July 2006
One of the things we do each night is evaluate the quality of each day's price move. We want to know whether a trend is genuine, with broad-based participation, implying…
Options: A Three Dimensional Chess Game
Interestingly, the analytical yet intuitive nature of chess and trading is very similar, and many great traders happen to also be fanatical chess players. In fact, the introspective process is…
Charts and Commentary
Two weeks ago, there was plenty of business news discussions about a recession, soft landings, and hard landings. Now those discussions have disappeared into oblivion. The DOW is making new…
Let's Get Real About Deficits
This week, while President Bush took credit for supposedly cutting the enormous budget deficit in half, the Commerce Department reported that the trade deficit in August was a record $69.9…
Commodities Breakdown
With the Dow 30 continuing to carve its new series of all-time record highs, the excitement it is creating is sucking in capital like a black hole. Nothing draws in…
The Shift in Economic Power to the East - Part 2 - Denial, Crisis and Soaring Gold!
We do not expect the politicians to roll over and be overwhelmed by commercial interests when it comes to their future votes. To add fuel to this oncoming crisis, the…
Getting to the Bottom of It
It is becoming somewhat inevitable these days, that whenever a group of analysts, traders, or investors gathers to discuss commodity matters, sooner or later someone will portentously intone the formula:…
Bull or Bear, Frankly my Dear...
Gold stocks, bounced from strong support. Drug stocks, good long term, many at resistance. Biotech, good long term, many have advanced from support ...
