"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •603 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 2,368.90 | +129.30 | +5.77% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 66.70 | +1.49 | +2.28% |
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Gasoline •23 mins | 2.063 | +0.031 | +1.51% |
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Ethanol •604 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •603 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 603 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 603 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 12 mins | 72.51 | +1.76 | +2.49% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.868 | +0.041 | +1.45% | |
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Heating Oil • 21 mins | 2.674 | +0.062 | +2.35% |
Markets
Is the Table Set for a Mania in Precious Metals?
It may feel like I'm out of touch with the precious metals markets to broach the subject of a mania today, but I think the table is being set now…
The Dow/Gold Ratio Will Move Towards 1:1, Are You Positioned To Profit From It?
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Merk Commentary: ECB Meeting - No Horse Trading, No Additional Money Printing (for now)
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When Austerity Fails
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Uncleared Derivatives To Be Regulated?
An article this morning reports that the Financial Stability Board ('FSB) plans to issue proposals on rules encouraging banks to put derivatives trades through a central clearing house as part…
Gold: A Modest Proposal
Zurich, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Shanghai and Singapore have all detected the UK's ambivalence to physical metal... A gold sovereign coin is within the UK tax authority's definition of investment gold.…
Have Gold, Silver, and Mining Stocks Bottomed?
On Friday, the price action in gold caught the attention of most market participants as gold put in a monster move to the upside in light of risk assets such…
Tilting at Windmills
On June 20th the Federal Open Market Committee is going conclude a two-day meeting and release a summary of their view of the economy, most likely including an 'unwelcome' decline…
What's next for the U.S. Dollar? QE3?
The dismal U.S. jobs report for May, released last Friday, caused the price of gold to soar as the market appears to be pricing in an ever-greater chance of "QE3"…
QE III Game of Chicken
Most investors and market pundits continue to misdiagnose the reason behind the worldwide economic malaise. The underlying problem isn't "uncertainty" or any other platitudes Wall Street and politicians like to…
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