"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •199 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 965.50 | +17.10 | +1.80% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 77.88 | -0.80 | -1.02% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 2.112 | -0.011 | -0.52% |
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Ethanol •199 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •199 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 199 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 199 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 1 day | 80.79 | -0.50 | -0.62% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 3.948 | -0.310 | -7.28% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 2.621 | +0.004 | +0.15% |
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Financial Markets Forecast and Analysis
We remain on a Dow Theory "sell signal." Bearish Triple Tops patterns are completing in the S&P 500 ($SPX), the Wilshire 5000 Index ($WLSH), and the Broker/Dealer Index-Amex ($XBD). Bearish…
Tightening Lite?
My hunch is that the speculative interest that has returned (after a long hiatus) to commodity markets will not prove a flash in the pan. And, importantly, the size of…
Whole Lot of 'Flation Going On
But that is what people do. On the advice of the nation's leading mortgage advisor, Alan 'Bubbles' Greenspan, they refinance their homes at adjustable rates. Maybe rates will go up...maybe…
The Great Deluder
The credit excesses of the late '90s bubble economy implicitly disrupted its underlying structures of demand, output, relative prices and profits in many ways. The thing to realize is that…
Using the Consumer Price Index to Rob Americans Blind
What you should find unsettling and fraudulent are the ways that the CPI is manipulated to ensure there is no inflation, regardless of how high the prices rise for things…
Golden Bull Buy Signals 3
"While the long-term secular gold bull that now challenges $400 almost certainly has many years left to run yet, with the best gains lying ahead still, speculators still need to…
Energy Wars!
That the world has crossed or nearing the crossing to the downside of conventional sources of energy particularly oil is not in dispute. Numerous studies have demonstrated with global demand…
Creepy
At any rate, while Ben Bernanke is reasonably sanguine about inflation "over the next couple years," the longer end of the Treasury yield curve has been less so recently. And…
Final Assault - or the Last Gasp?
The dollar has fallen almost uninterruptedly for over two years now. Finally Americans are getting some welcome relief (aided tremendously by the slanted payroll numbers reports), seeing the dollar rebound…
Gold - The Weekly Global Perspective
Whilst Noyer, the Governor of the Bank of France, appears to have changed his stance on gold from "there is no debate" to an apparent willingness to sell up to…
