"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •304 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 966.10 | -1.00 | -0.10% |
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WTI Crude •1 day | 58.29 | -0.95 | -1.60% |
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Gasoline •1 day | 2.020 | -0.029 | -1.43% |
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Ethanol •304 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •304 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 304 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 304 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 1 day | 61.29 | -0.84 | -1.35% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 day | 3.630 | +0.151 | +4.34% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 day | 1.993 | -0.019 | -0.93% |
Markets
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Gold Update 4
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The Many Faces Of Liquidity
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The End of the Innocence
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Technical Market Report
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Affordable Housing
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The Yield Curve
The level of attention to the recent and mild inversion of the yield curve has bordered on hysteria in the media. Does it portend a recession? Or is, as Ethan…
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