"No warning can save people determined to grow suddenly rich" - Lord Overstone
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Gold •15 mins | 2,413.80 | +15.80 | +0.66% |
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Platinum •15 mins | 943.80 | -10.70 | -1.12% |
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WTI Crude •16 hours | 83.14 | +0.41 | +0.50% |
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Gasoline •16 hours | 2.710 | -0.003 | -0.13% |
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Ethanol •15 hours | 2.161 | +0.000 | +0.00% |
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Silver •15 mins | 28.84 | +0.46 | +1.63% |
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Silver • 15 mins | 28.84 | +0.46 | +1.63% | |
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Copper • 15 mins | 4.498 | +0.061 | +1.37% | |
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Brent Crude • 15 hours | 87.29 | +0.18 | +0.21% | |
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Natural Gas • 16 hours | 1.752 | -0.005 | -0.28% | |
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Heating Oil • 16 hours | 2.541 | +0.007 | +0.29% |
Markets
Running Out of Band-Aids
It certainly is interesting to observe the financial 'community' try and tell people that a currency intervention will not work without it being internationally coordinated - meaning that it has…
The Misinformation Highway
Many very correct analyses have been made recently, which point to the similarities between today's financial excess and other historic bubbles. But there is irony in the difference also. At…
Declining Dollar Utility
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Eternal Vigilance
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Easy Money
During 1999, only two kinds of traders were able to make the easy money… those who really believed, and those who didn't but profited from those who did. So far…
There is no SafeHaven
At least not in the stock markets… that may indeed turn out be this week's trepidation as the ticker tape action of the various superficial "Safe Havens" fired up last…
Return of the Risk Premium
The Equity Risk Premium represents the additional return demanded by an investor to own equity over and above what is considered to be a risk free interest rate. It is…
Not Priced For Disappointment
The problem is always too many dollars. A dangerously flawed and incredibly inflationary argument is that higher oil prices and a strong dollar will do the slowing for the Fed.…
The Point of Recognition
This "remarkable" coexistence reveals how the dollar has been losing purchasing power even as intensifying capital inflows into the US financial system inflate its foreign exchange "rate." The process is…
Wall Street Kisses Goldilocks Goodbye
Some market technicians, including myself, view the rising wedge as a completion pattern. It is not an easy pattern to discern, especially if the market has fooled you with so…
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