"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •294 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 978.40 | +16.20 | +1.68% |
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WTI Crude •1 hour | 62.27 | -1.40 | -2.20% |
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Gasoline •1 hour | 2.084 | -0.016 | -0.75% |
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Ethanol •294 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •294 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 294 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 294 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 11 mins | 66.16 | -1.28 | -1.90% | |
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Natural Gas • 1 hour | 3.022 | +0.015 | +0.50% | |
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Heating Oil • 1 hour | 2.127 | -0.022 | -1.01% |
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Slaughter of the Housing Speculators
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Now we have CAFTA and that Rhymes with NAFTA... More Trouble in River City?
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CNOOC and U.S. Foreign Investment Rules: Today's "Screen" may be Tomorrow's "Wall"
The recent effort by the China National Overseas Oil Company (CNOOC) to acquire the U.S. oil company Unocal unleashed what can only be described as a firestorm of opposition. The…
Is Retailing Starting to Falter?
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Buy China Energy Technology
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The Fed Misses an Opportunity
The market, uncharacteristically, is typically correct in its expectations of Federal Reserve interest rate actions; indeed, it is with this fact in mind that many argue that the Fed merely…
Getting to the "Core" of Inflation Propaganda
Yesterday the Labor Department reported that July Consumer Prices rose by .5%. Today we were informed that July producer prices rose an even sharper 1%. Though these are very serious…
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