"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
Bank of England Stands Pat But Policy Outlook For 2007 Remains Uncertain
As expected, the Bank of England's Monetary Committee (MPC) left the repo rate at 5.0% today. With sterling in the ascendant and the manufacturing sector apparently starting to suffer, many…
ECB: Today's 25bp Hike Unlikely To Be The Last, But The End Is In Sight
As usual, the most interesting part of this morning's policy meeting at the European Central Bank (ECB) was not what happened - another 25bp increase in the refi rate, as…
Economy and Dollar Balancing Act
The Fed's mandate is to maintain dollar stability. However, they may have to decide in 2007 whether to rescue a falling currency by hiking rates or to lower rates in…
Usury and Soap Operas
Financial watchdogs are getting truly medieval on 'excessive' rates and 'unfair' charges, says Adrian Ash at BullionVault...and all this when real interest rates are still near multi-decade lows...
Expect Short-Term Dollar Bounce, Gold Drop and Yield Rise Ahead
Gold has broken below a 6-week triangle support at $638.11 per ounce to $630.50 per ounce, and is now nearing the $625.81 support -- 23.6% Fibonacci retracement of the move…
The New World Order: Secrets
We have seen the huge part that World War I played as a major pivot point in the dynamics of paradigm shifts, the acting out of political intentions, and their…
Supply, Demand, and Shamanism
For the better part of four years now, commodity prices have been rising as the unexpectedly rapid pace of urbanisation of Asia, running in a not-entirely unrelated concurrence with the…
What's the Fed up to when Yield Curves "De-Invert"?
If history is any guide, then, don't look for the negative spread between the Treasury 10-year and fed funds to turn positive until the FOMC begins cutting the fed funds…
Milton Friedman, 1912-2006
Money is no yardstick of prices. It is subject to man's valuations and actions in the same way that all other economic goods are. Its subjective, as well as objective,…
Zero Visibility
In many ways, navigating the markets is like landing a plane on a foggy day. Intuition tells us one thing, but the markets react in the polar opposite direction. Over…
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