"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •508 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 1,549.60 | +25.40 | +1.67% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 58.11 | +0.05 | +0.09% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.883 | -0.001 | -0.04% |
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Ethanol •508 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •508 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 508 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 508 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 62.60 | +0.04 | +0.06% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 4.487 | -0.093 | -2.03% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.399 | -0.058 | -2.35% |
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Junior Mining Company Risk
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Junior Golds and CDNX
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The Death Of Gold Revisited
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Credit Derivatives Dangers In 2008 and Beyond (A Primer)
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Free Markets - Do They Exist
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Commodity Market Summary
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The Velocity of Floral Inflation
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Reflections and Black Swans
What pessimists on the U.S. stock market today miss is that the performance of the stock market is not directly tied to the performance of the economy in the short…
Second-Guessing the Fed
...'Buy the rumor, sell the news' applies to all markets. Not least when the Fed is committed to reflating housing and stocks...
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