"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •443 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 1,420.20 | +20.00 | +1.43% |
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WTI Crude •11 mins | 62.91 | -0.66 | -1.04% |
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Gasoline •11 mins | 1.973 | -0.039 | -1.93% |
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Ethanol •443 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •443 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 443 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 443 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 66.76 | -0.68 | -1.01% | |
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Natural Gas • 11 mins | 2.881 | -0.058 | -1.97% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.301 | -0.040 | -1.69% |
Markets
Precious Points: Seeing Clearly
Despite the inundation of market commentary you saw flooding the Internet with predictions of a dollar collapse and a pending economic disaster last weekend, we instead warned that cooler heads…
Lots Of Changes
We remain in Sell Mode, looking for the market to move lower into the end of December. That being said, we'll switch our position if this strength materializes into a…
When Will the Housing Market Bottom?
Lennar, the #3 homebuilding firm, said the cancellation rates for home sales were running about 30% last quarter. KB Homes said the number was 43%. A lot of anecdotal stories…
Q3 2006 Flow of Funds
Akin to current economic and market analysis, skillful examination of the Fed's quarterly "Flow of Funds" report has become a more challenging endeavor. Yet one might be tempted to glance…
Chronology of a Dollar Bounce Foretold
Today's Forex market activity was a classic example of vindicating charts analysis over the news and the noise. The US dollar rallied for about 10 minutes following the stronger than…
What's Really Going on With Bonds?
Given that foreigners are the primary purchasers of US Treasury bonds (snapping up 56% of inventory in the last auction), a declining dollar is supposed to be a major drag…
Charts and Commentary
First the first time since 2003, the VIX broke below the circle in September which meant that the market perceived lower risk and that it would move higher. This was…
Employment and Recessions (Short and "Sweet"): A Picture Worth Thousand Words
When Wall Street and Federal Reserve economists point to the current employment growth as a sign of the economy's health, over the next few quarters, i.e., a sign of "soft…
Gold and Dollar Decoupling
While the dollar has hit record lows against some currencies, the metric of choice for following the dollar is generally still the US Dollar Index. Several decades old, it is…
When Fiction Meets Reality
The degree of irony found in the current situation would make for good humor if found in fiction, but because we are talking about reality, and a serious reality at…
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