"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •572 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 2,561.00 | -317.10 | -11.02% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 61.41 | +0.78 | +1.29% |
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Gasoline •12 mins | 1.820 | -0.000 | -0.02% |
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Ethanol •572 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •572 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 572 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 572 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 66.37 | +0.78 | +1.19% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 5.860 | -0.940 | -13.82% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.554 | -0.014 | -0.55% |
Markets / Other
Why The US Is (Temporarily) Outperforming, In Two Charts
Today's US employment report was the best in years. 300,000+ new jobs, rising wages, fewer people dropping out of the workforce, the whole package. Very hopeful. And also curious, since…
LBMA Implosion By Reversal of its Own Gold Leverage
Gold Market: GOFO negative, surging gold lease rates, gold price backwardation ...
Russia and China's Natural Gas Deals Are a Death Knell for Canada's LNG Ambitions
In recent years, a number of Asian companies have been betting that Canada will be able to export cheap liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its west coast. These big international…
Global Oil Consumption Report: What Countries Have Increased or Decreased Oil Usage Since 2009?
Reader David Epperson sent in some interesting charts on global oil usage that he produced from U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data. The data is through the end of 2013.
Chinese GDP Surpasses USA (when Measurement Adjusted)
A story has been echoing around the financial news for a few weeks. One article about it, It's official: America is now No. 2 by Brett Arends at MarketWatch, came…
Gold Shorting Exhaustion
Gold's been on an incredible roller-coaster ride over the past couple months, whipsawing like crazy. And contrary to popular rationalizations, these swings had absolutely nothing to do with fundamentals.
Why OPEC Will Tolerate Cheap Oil
Despite falling oil prices, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) voted on November 27th not to cut production in order to boost prices. The key to this decision appears…
Bitcoin Trading Alert: Bitcoin Slipping into Bearish Territory
Make no mistake about this one. Bitcoin is not yet any kind of serious competitor for credit card companies. But for the first time in years a system has emerged…
Post Referendum Bounce
It turns out the Swiss referendum last weekend which sought to force the Swiss National Bank to maintain 20% gold reserves was a red herring so far as precious metal…
Commodities and the Dollar
Each commodity market has its own story to tell: oil prices are falling because OPEC can't agree production cuts, steel faces a glut from overcapacity, and even the price of…
