"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •214 days | 2,368.70 | +35.30 | +1.51% |
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Platinum •10 mins | 1,000.30 | -43.40 | -4.16% |
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WTI Crude •10 mins | 72.46 | -0.07 | -0.10% |
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Gasoline •10 mins | 2.089 | +0.030 | +1.47% |
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Ethanol •214 days | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •214 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% |
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Silver • 214 days | 30.82 | +1.16 | +3.92% | |
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Copper • 214 days | 4.530 | +0.111 | +2.51% | |
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Brent Crude • 10 mins | 75.46 | -0.21 | -0.28% | |
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Natural Gas • 10 mins | 3.332 | +0.288 | +9.46% | |
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Heating Oil • 10 mins | 2.425 | +0.028 | +1.16% |
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Import Prices and the Renminbi - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie?
Thus, a given percentage depreciation of the dollar versus Asian currencies would likely put more upward pressure on import prices and consumer prices than would a depreciation against European Union…
Q1 2005 "Flow of Funds"
The Credit Bubble remains in a period of spectacular blow-off excess. First quarter Non-financial Debt increased at a 10.0% seasonally-adjusted annualized (SAA) rate. This was up from the fourth quarter's…
More Conflicting Data
Evidence continued to mount that economic growth is intermittent. In April, employers added 274,000 jobs, 100,000 more jobs than economists expected. This was reversed in May when only 78,000 workers…
Point of Order - Are You Listening?
This week's proceedings in the halls of Congress have caused us to raise a point of order with Chairman Greenspan. Exactly when WILL you know why the bond market is…
Is Investing A Crapshoot?
When markets go sideways for a few weeks, we are tempted to believe that there is no risk. Reinforcing our complacency, economists and gurus espouse that the market is just…
The Expectations Game
Coming in at $3 billion less than some had feared, today's release of April's $57 billion trade deficit is being heralded as good news. The fact that the fourth worst…
XOI and SPX Correlation
Contrarian investors usually see oil stocks as a great way to ride the secular commodities bull now unfolding. Oil is in huge and growing demand worldwide, large new fields remain…
Gold - The Weekly Global Perspective
In the "climate" created by the global macro-economic view, we see strong reactions from the direct influences on gold.
Conspiracy Theories and Market Tops
Fast forward to 2005. The new conspiracy theories just happen to be about Real Estate. According to this article, talk of bubbles in housing is a conspiracy by Wall Street…
A Sign of the End of the Tightening Cycle
The end of Fed interest rate increases may be in sight. In previous cycles, the end of Fed interest rate hikes has coincided with a local trough of the MZM.…
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