"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •434 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,397.00 | -0.80 | -0.06% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 62.36 | -1.31 | -2.06% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.965 | -0.043 | -2.16% |
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Ethanol •434 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •434 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 434 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 434 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 66.21 | -1.28 | -1.90% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.994 | -0.035 | -1.16% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.275 | -0.059 | -2.52% |
Markets / Other
Hello, Inflation is Not Good for the Dollar
The fact that signs of growing inflation have coincided with a strengthening dollar has led many to the erroneous conclusion that higher inflation is somehow good for the dollar. However,…
No Joy in Greenspan's Wonderland!
The other day, a fast talking lady - a US stock market bull - was debating my friend David Tice - a well informed bear - on CNBC. The lady…
Gold versus Commodities
There has recently been a debate amongst some gold market commentators about whether or not gold's recent poor performance relative to commodities constitutes evidence that the gold price is being…
General Motors, the Stock Market and Gold
If the saying "As goes General Motors so goes America" holds true then it doesn't look very good for America or for the stock market. In a March 16th profit…
A "Fear Market" in Oil, Part Two
When last we looked at the oil chart a couple of weeks ago we talked about the rising wedge pattern (which had traced out the classic 1-2-3-4-5 alternation pattern typical…
Interest Rates (and Gold) Going Up Up Up
Alan Greenspan recently told the world that hedge funds ought not to be expecting the carry trade to last forever. In other words, they'd better unwind their borrow-short, lend-long positions…
What Conundrum?
Alan Greenspan publicly declared that the failure of long-term interest rates to rise meaningfully in the face of Fed tightening is a conundrum. The conventional wisdom is that the flattening…
We are Outsourcing Ourselves
Let me elaborate, a westerner has a very high personal overhead base he needs to earn a great deal of money just to stand still and to support his largest…
Gold Investments Weekly Newsletter
Gold in Euro terms is up some 30% since 2000 however it has been largely static for the last two years trading in a narrow band between EUR300 and EUR350.…
EU Seeds vs. US Harvest
This fiscal tightening may be forced upon the US as it seems no less intent than on continuing with current policy no matter the end it must surely perceive as…
