"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •446 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 1,425.70 | +9.20 | +0.65% |
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WTI Crude •3 hours | 62.64 | -0.04 | -0.06% |
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Gasoline •40 mins | 1.978 | +0.008 | +0.38% |
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Ethanol •446 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •446 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 446 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 446 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 40 mins | 66.59 | -0.09 | -0.13% | |
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Natural Gas • 40 mins | 2.806 | -0.082 | -2.84% | |
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Heating Oil • 40 mins | 2.292 | -0.007 | -0.29% |
Markets / Other
The Tired Bull
I have been stressing for a while, what the S&P's does with 1242 will tell me if the bigger picture has changed. At this point the S&P's have been vibrating…
The Possibility of a Recession
The economy seems to be slowing. Will this be a mid-cycle slowdown as it has been the last two decades or will it evolve into a recession? In either event,…
Major Equity Markets Plunge. Whats Next?
The Dow Industrials completed their third triple-digit loss in a row, and are down over 4 percent over the past three days. This is what happens with wave threes, which…
Technical Market Report
There is no evidence of a bottom. I expect the major indices to be lower on Friday July 21 than they were on Friday July 14.
Crash Update: A Diamond In the Rough
After making the "W of Doom" formation at its top, the NASDAQ stock market declined severely and then developed a Bearish Diamond continuation pattern. This NASDAQ Daily annotated chart has…
Household Debt Service Ratio Hits New Record High
The retail sales data for June and for the second quarter as a whole indicate that the U.S. consumer spending binge is winding down. One factor that may finally be…
An Interview with an Esteemed Elder Statesman
It is increasingly apparent that important developments related to the flow of speculative finance are beginning to take hold throughout the markets and, hence, the economy.
Somalia, Radical Islam and the Sea Lanes
Afghanistan and Somalia share something - both have undergone long periods of lawlessness, a reflection of weak or nonexistent central governments. For the vast majority of people living in Afghanistan…
Stock Cycles
In this installment I will present the valuation model I employed to make the projections in Part I. I call this valuation model P/R. it is the ratio of the…
Gas Stock Divergence
Since the spectacular interim tops in the precious and base metals back in early May, investors and speculators have been anxiously trying to divine just how long the metals ought…
