"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •368 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 1,408.70 | +1.60 | +0.11% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 66.06 | -0.44 | -0.66% |
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Gasoline •16 mins | 2.107 | -0.010 | -0.48% |
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Ethanol •368 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •368 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 368 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 368 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 17 mins | 67.91 | -0.39 | -0.57% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.338 | -0.049 | -1.45% | |
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Heating Oil • 11 mins | 2.402 | -0.007 | -0.31% |
Markets
Will Corporate Bondholders Be Left Holding The Bag Again?
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Morning Notes: Trend Reversals Imminent?
Since the peak in the Dow Jones on May 10th at 11650, the seasonably unfavorable market period arrived right on queue. Sectors that had led the market up from November's…
Staring into the Abyss
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Modest Proposals
The easiest way to convince an investor to buy something is to show them an investment that has just gone up in price. As a matter of fact, the faster…
Central Bankers Declare War on Gold, Commodities
For the past four years, the big-3 central banks were the world's "serial bubble blowers," flooding the world with cheap money via historically low interest rates, in order to pump…
Bernanke Scares Pavlov's Sheep
What Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve Governors should know, and are likely to find out the hard way, is that markets driven by speculation will react just like Pavlov's…
Warning! Fiscal Hurricane Approaching! Is Your Portfolio Secure? Part 3
There's now too much of almost everything, except oil, being produced. This is basically and fundamentally deflationary. The central banks know this, and to offset these deflationary forces the central…
Why Rising Oil Prices will not Fuel US Inflation
Given that the demand for oil would be unresponsive to prices rises in the short run we can see that the effect of an OPEC-induced price rise would be to…
Gold Sector Review
During the long-term bull market in gold stocks there have, to date, been two intermediate-term corrections (the 2001 and 2002 corrections) and one primary correction (the Dec-2003 to May-2005 correction).
Asset Deflation Takes Hold
2005 featured the last drunken push with respect to the Fed-induced, borrowing-infused, post-NASDAQ bubble money supply trade. Frankly, the 2003-2006 "recovery" was substantially a mirage -- built upon the ability…
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