"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •408 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,346.40 | -15.10 | -1.11% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 63.00 | -0.96 | -1.50% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 2.076 | -0.033 | -1.58% |
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Ethanol •408 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •408 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 408 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 408 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 66.01 | -0.83 | -1.24% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 2.928 | +0.087 | +3.06% | |
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Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.233 | -0.002 | -0.09% |
Markets / Other
Wall Street Wakes Up
In addition to generally weak economic data, such as Wednesday's ISM data, Thursday's rising jobless claims, today's employment report (though the 35,000 decline in September non-farm payrolls was fewer than…
Dollar Rally Not Yet Over
The dollar is staging a steady rally after the less than expected decline in payrolls, retracing a 1/3 of Thursday's 2.5 cent plunge against the euro, and erasing 90% of…
Crude Oil and the Stealth Tax
After a lengthy pause after sending the "channel buster" exhaustion a month ago, crude oil has finally dipped down closer to its 30-week moving average and to the lower boundary…
Squeezing Americans Dry
With rising inflation and debt payments, the household budgets of all of us are being squeezed. The picture does not look pretty. Let's first look at inflation. Signs of rising…
Money, Debt, Hyper-inflation and Deflation
Today, money is created through borrowing - pure and simple. When you receive that new creditline/mortgage/loan, money is created out of thin air. This is how money is created and…
Trend Watch
The market went flat in the first half of the week but rallied surprisingly on Thursday and gained a little more on Friday. For the week, the Dow Jones Industrial…
Commodity Currency Action Makes Sense
Looking at the action in the commodity currencies (particularly those of Australia and Canada), the drubbing they're taking today (Tuesday, 10/5/05) makes some sense, but only if you're looking at…
Shine O' the Times!
In order to predict gold's future, we must understand our monetary history. Only a few people realise that up until 1971, the US dollar was linked to gold. The gold…
Connecting the Dots
One thing the arrival of snow means for everybody that lives in the northern states is arrival of cool, fall weather. Our nighttime temperatures have dropped into the high 30's…
Using Derivatives to Detect More than the Casual Eye Might See
Friend and client, Warren West, is president of Greentree Brokerage Services, Inc., the Philadelphia-based firm he founded in 1998. In addition to being a registered broker-dealer, member of the NASD,…
