"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •567 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •14 mins | 2,448.40 | -46.90 | -1.88% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 60.53 | -0.09 | -0.15% |
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Gasoline •33 mins | 1.851 | -0.006 | -0.33% |
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Ethanol •567 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •567 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 567 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 567 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 35 mins | 65.24 | +0.32 | +0.49% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 5.002 | +0.127 | +2.61% | |
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Heating Oil • 13 mins | 2.407 | -0.024 | -0.99% |
Markets / Other
Default and Get it Over With; Stop The Needless Torture
Why torture Greek citizens anymore? If you are going to default, it's best to do it right away, as in four or five years ago.
Grab The Reins on The Dollar
Let us all grab the reins on the dollar. Yes, it is true: the buck is up some 25% from a year ago, and at the highest level in more…
Looking up for Silver
We still favor higher during the next two months for precious metals, although we acknowledge that the choppy action of recent months has made the trade difficult for bulls. The…
Are Stock Bears Being Too Pessimistic?
Monday's widely-followed ISM Manufacturing Index came in above expectations with a reading of 52.8. A reading above 50 indicates growth in manufacturing. A broad recession is typically defined when ISM…
2007 All Over Again? Mega-Merger Edition
Intel is buying chip maker Altera. Charter is buying Time Warner Cable. All the big drug makers are buying all the mediums-sized ones.
In Denial: We Pursue Endless Growth At Our Peril
As we've been discussing of late here at PeakProsperity.com, humans desperately need a new story to live by. The old one is increasingly dysfunctional and rather obviously headed for either…
Good and Not So Good?
The NYA Index had a down tick that was below a support on Friday.
Bond Bubble Bust Won't Cause Great Rotation
For the first time in its country's history, Portugal sold 6 month T-bills at a negative yield. The 300 million euros ($333 million) worth of bills due in November 2015…
The Natural Interest Rate Cannot Be Negative!
Thorsten Polleit, PhD is chief economist of the precious-metals firm Degussa and co-founder of the investment boutique Polleit and Riechert Investment Management LLP. He is honorary professor at the Frankfurt…
EURUSD and USDCAD Intraday: Elliott Wave Analysis
USDCAD is breaking higher, now trading above wave B swing, so triangle can be done in fourth wave which means that higher prices are in play for wave 5). We…
