"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •793 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 1,826.00 | -8.00 | -0.44% |
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WTI Crude •4 hours | 91.48 | +0.18 | +0.20% |
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Gasoline •4 hours | 3.215 | +0.080 | +2.54% |
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Ethanol •793 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •793 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 793 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 793 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 3 hours | 96.28 | +0.76 | +0.80% | |
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Natural Gas • 4 hours | 2.975 | +0.062 | +2.13% | |
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Heating Oil • 4 hours | 4.540 | -0.053 | -1.16% |
Markets / Other
Canadian Dollar, Mining Stocks and Warrants
Are you keeping up with the Canadian Dollar? The Canadian Dollar is now the strongest currency in the world and there have been many forecasts of parity with the U.S.…
Gold: It's Not Iran, Stupid
We have all read reports of upper-class Iranians stockpiling gold as tensions continue to rise, but this shouldn't really have much of an effect on the price level as Iranian…
Winds of War
In war, the most fatal mistake is to underestimate the enemy. Likewise, in natural resource markets, the most costly blunder is to underestimate how far prices can go.
Ben, Maria, and the Makings of a Precious Metals Panic
Following Russia, Argentina, and Venezuela, Sweden recently became the latest central bank to reduce its dollar reserves. Along with central bank diversification away from USD, there is the growing threat…
Gold Is Getting Overbought
For the past week, the XAU gold stock index has been lagging the metal. While gold has rallied like mad, gold stocks have barely followed suit. This is the type…
Interest Rates Hike from Down Under
The Reserve Bank of Australia raised its overnight rate by 25-bps to 5.75% in line with our expectations but against the 55% market consensus of a rate hold. This was…
E-Economic Newsletter
I am happy to report that the Federal Reserve is not increasing Total Fed Credit with its usual disregard to the sheer economic insanity of constantly creating more and more…
How Close is a Real Estate Meltdown?
Are we to a "housing bubble" meltdown? Are we going to see the real estate boom reverse and turn into a real estate bear market anytime soon? Will 2006 see…
Divergences and the Dash to Trash
This author has to admit - global liquidity (and what is relevant to the U.S. stock market) is getting more difficult to track by the month, as both China and…
Short Squeeze
A series of disparate events have coalesced that have set the stage for generational price spikes in not one, not two, but in three major metals.
