"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •329 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 1,071.40 | -3.20 | -0.30% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 62.33 | +0.49 | +0.79% |
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Gasoline •13 mins | 2.098 | +0.009 | +0.44% |
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Ethanol •329 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •329 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 329 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 329 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 65.34 | +0.44 | +0.68% | |
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Natural Gas • 6 hours | 3.204 | -0.194 | -5.71% | |
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Heating Oil • 12 mins | 2.090 | +0.002 | +0.10% |
Markets
The Weekly Review of Independent Opinions
The heavy down day in the indexes had some bad characteristics besides price. Volume was high. The VIX jumped from 11.98 to 14.56, and the VXN from 16.51 to 19.45.…
The Great Silver Standoff...
The immediate outlook for gold very much depends on the outcome of the silver "war of attrition", being fought in the $8.80 - $9.30 zone. Silver's late December - early…
Buying Bullion Keeps Getting Easier
While most investors seem satisfied using the shares of mining companies as high-beta substitutes for the metal, more and more individuals are becoming interested in owning some physical gold itself.…
Germany: The Year of Recovery?
Is the German economy really headed into an upswing this year, as most analysts and commentators expect? Data releases over the next few days should help to clarify the picture.
Trend Watch
Let's talk about the losing streak of WATTS. Historically, the longest losing streak of the WATTS signal is 3. That is, it's not unusual for WATTS to lose consecutively for…
What Will Happen to Gold Shares in a Crashing U.S. Stock Market?
As some of you probably already know, there are a multitude of reasons why I believe the broader stock markets are about to meet a financial Freddy Krueger. I won't…
Weekly Wrap-up: How Tight will the Fed Cinch the Belt
It has been our view in this space that the Fed, despite all rhetorical posturing to the contrary, is indeed targeting asset prices with its current program of measured rate…
Iran's Ayatollah could Unleash the "Oil Weapon" in 2006, Rattling Global Markets
The main-stream media was searching for clues to explain the worst wreckage on Wall Street in almost three years on January 19th, with the Dow Jones Industrials falling 225 points,…
Beware of Spells
Many investors appear to be missionary-zeal convinced that the Federal Reserve has inflation under control. Yet gold recently hit a near 25-year high and commodity indexes in 2005 enjoyed their…
DJIA Timing System Short at 10,870
As the above chart implies, real consumption is set to decline going forward if we are to follow historical experience. Like we have mentioned in our past commentaries, the decline…
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