"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 •10 mins | 1,531.80 | +7.60 | +0.50% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 58.03 | -0.03 | -0.05% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.886 | +0.003 | +0.15% |
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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 | 62.53 | -0.03 | -0.05% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 4.475 | -0.105 | -2.29% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.441 | -0.015 | -0.63% |
Markets
Fed Defends The Indefensible
One thing should be clear in all this, the SEC's Open Invite For Corporations To Lie and the Fed's "make-it-up-as-you-go-along" policy are not going to restore confidence. The market may…
Ring-Fence the Bad Assets - Re-Arranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic?
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TedBits
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Tax Payer Bail-out Ideas Stabilize US Dollar, Trip Gold
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The Ex Ante: Liquidity Trap Revisited - Will They Take the Bait?
If we assume the Fed is basically done with this easing cycle we need to consider the effects in the banking system and bond market. We think there is an…
Where's the "Protection" in TIPS?
Comparing TIPS to a genuine inflation hedge like gold reveals their ineptness as an inflation-protected product. Since President Nixon broke the gold window in 1971, gold has soared from roughly…
Gold and Silver - Retracements
The price action for Gold and Silver appears to be in a wave (2) or wave (B) correction. We should see the price of Gold and Silver advance to the…
Recession? Close Enough for Fed Work
It was only last August that the Fed's principal concern was preventing higher inflation. But, after 300 basis points of reductions in its federal funds rate target, a 75 basis…
Systemic Risk Maybe Out, But Recession is In
Today's report confirms what we said two weeks ago about markets' false sense of optimism/comfort arising from the lack of "systemic risk" news, ignoring the macroeconomic realities of the financial…
CNBC Europe Powerlunch
The big question is; is this current consolidation of the downtrend a counter trend rally in a bear campaign or is this a low of some significance?
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