"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •566 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •14 mins | 2,492.20 | +41.70 | +1.70% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 59.63 | -0.73 | -1.21% |
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Gasoline •14 mins | 1.807 | -0.017 | -0.94% |
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Ethanol •566 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •566 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 566 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 566 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 64.04 | -0.88 | -1.36% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 3.837 | -0.070 | -1.79% | |
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Heating Oil • 16 mins | 2.317 | -0.021 | -0.91% |
Markets / Other
The Canary in the Coal Mine
In the world of economics, there are also things which are the equivalent of a canary in a coal mine. This week we will look at yield curves in England.…
Coal and Ashes for Wall Street this Christmas?
Ironically, the old "tried and true" technical indicators and seasonal biases that worked consistently in the previous century are no longer working with the same consistency in the new millennium.…
Dilly-Dally Monetary Management
Massive foreign central bank purchases and general overly abundant marketplace liquidity has provided a strong inflationary bias for Credit market instruments (U.S. and global). And each bout of sinking yields…
The World's Workshop
Recently, I've written about how China was the "Big Story" and cautioned that China, as an emerging market, was likely to suffer some gut-wrenching peaks and valleys. It didn't take…
The Scary Part Of The Gold Price Curve
In these volatile gold price days, you need to learn to think like a trader, even if you are a small-time physical gold buyer holding on until the financial world…
Private Investment Accounts: a non-solution to the Social Security Crisis
Everybody is aware that a crisis in the Social Security system is looming. The enormous baby boom generation will bankrupt the Social Security system simply because there are so many…
Just Following the Money
No, we're not talking about some investigation into a political or corporate scandal. We are talking about the flow of funds into corporate equities and what the historical record shows.…
Forecast 2005
Every year brings its share of surprises and ups and downs in the stock market. But if there has been one thing investor's have been able to take to the…
Trading the Oil Bull 2
Last summer's boiling oil market has cooled considerably and plunged by 26% since its latest interim top. After surging from $42 in early September to over $55 on extremely bullish…
Anomalies
Gold will always do as it wants, irrespective of opinions, cycles, wants, wishes and needs. Its value is intrinsic, its price based upon uncertainty, the fear of what may lay…
