"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •202 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 962.90 | -7.90 | -0.81% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 75.79 | -0.04 | -0.05% |
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Gasoline •10 mins | 2.078 | -0.007 | -0.32% |
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Ethanol •202 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •202 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 202 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 202 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 79.24 | -0.05 | -0.06% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.729 | -0.027 | -0.72% | |
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Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.537 | -0.021 | -0.82% |
Markets / Other
Silver's New Upleg
The best proxy for the lackluster PM sentiment is certainly the sideways drifting HUI. Since the final weeks of its sharp correction in late April, this flagship index has drifted…
Gold - The Weekly Global Perspective
One has to emphasise that the forces at work in the gold market are not representative of the entire gold market, so small volumes from the dominant players will distort…
Will Consumers Bounce Back?
The government's tally of personal spending for June confirmed that spending contracted. In fact, the report published by the Commerce Department showed that spending had the largest drop since September…
Osama Bin Laden: A Profile in Terror
Like the piece presented last week, the current offering has withstood the test of time exceptionally well, as you will see as you read it. In some respects, this series…
The Price of Oil
Markets are smarter than people, so what is the market telling us? Even though the data (past information) tells us that supply is rising faster than demand, prices are rising.…
South African Mining in Crisis
In a sentence, South Africa appears to be ignoring that it is part of a global economy dominated by world prices for the bulk of its products, including exports from…
Discounting War and Terror Risk
We know that on worldwide basis common political interests have broken down. Economic ties, interdependence, and interrelationships are a bit more sticky. However, the global economy has no choice but…
Strangely Dressed Men are Marching Around the Outside Walls While Blowing Ram Horns! Could This Be Jericho?
This novel piece of legislation allows the government to set the implied rate of return for use in the computation of pension contributions. At some future date, the bureaucrats are…
Silver and the US Dollar
The practical aspect of distinguishing manipulation and management is to answer the question: To what extent can analysis, technical and fundamental, still remain useful in a manipulated market? Remember that…
A Classic "Fear Market"
I was taken aback by the latest front cover of the August 2004 issue of Futures magazine. It has a dark overtone with the headline, "Stock Market Smackdown" and featuring…
