"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •144 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 961.80 | -13.30 | -1.36% |
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WTI Crude •16 mins | 70.96 | -0.28 | -0.39% |
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Gasoline •20 mins | 2.050 | -0.011 | -0.55% |
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Ethanol •144 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •144 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 144 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 144 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 16 mins | 74.91 | -0.26 | -0.35% | |
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Natural Gas • 16 mins | 3.393 | +0.264 | +8.44% | |
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Heating Oil • 18 mins | 2.276 | +0.001 | +0.05% |
Markets / Other
Is The Consumer Rolling Over?
During the past couple of weeks, there have been a significant amount of evidence released indicating the economy is much weaker than practically everyone thought. This week, the Federal Reserve…
Recovery Faces Headwinds
According to Wall Street, earnings for the second quarter were pretty good. Eighty-five percent of the S&P 500 companies met or exceeded analysts' estimates. Now before rushing out to margin…
Dow 36,000 or Dow 3,600?
Armed with only a Value Line, a calculator, and some common sense, I set off to value the 30 stocks that comprise the DJIA. Sorry, no fancy dividend discount models…
Roller Coasters on Wall Street
Earnings season is now in full force. For the most part earnings are okay - not stellar - but not horrible. Interestingly, forward guidance seems improved over last quarter's also.…
A Pending Consumer Slowdown
Second quarter earnings reports are flooding in. This gives us an opportunity to observe how the economy is doing through the eyes of companies at the micro level. Reading earnings…
Capx Spending Gets Pushed Out
This week kicks off earnings season for the second quarter, but really heats up next week. So far there have been few earnings surprises. However, there have been a couple…
Are Real Estate Appraisers Former Internet Analysts?
The lack of corporate governance is retarding the mergers and acquisitions cycle. Stephen Schwarzman, president and CEO of The Blackstone Group, was interviewed by John Crudele of the New York…
Worldcons
With Arthur Andersen unraveling due to the fraud at Enron, auditors will now pay more attention to their role and be more diligent in conducing audits. Investors have started voting…
US Fund Managers are an Optimistic Group
Merrill Lynch's recent survey of portfolio managers indicates that US equities have lost their luster. Not only do more fund managers think that the earnings outlook is worse than it…
Nothing Super About SuperComm
SuperComm, the telecommunications industry's big annual conference, was last week. It didn't have the pizzazz as in the past and this year attendance was down 30% from last year, and…
