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Why The US Is (Temporarily) Outperforming, In Two Charts

Dec 05, 2014 at 18:39

Today's US employment report was the best in years. 300,000+ new jobs, rising wages, fewer people dropping out of the workforce, the whole package. Very hopeful. And also curious, since…

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LBMA Implosion By Reversal of its Own Gold Leverage

Dec 05, 2014 at 12:57

Gold Market: GOFO negative, surging gold lease rates, gold price backwardation ...

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Russia and China's Natural Gas Deals Are a Death Knell for Canada's LNG Ambitions

Dec 05, 2014 at 12:28

In recent years, a number of Asian companies have been betting that Canada will be able to export cheap liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its west coast. These big international…

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Global Oil Consumption Report: What Countries Have Increased or Decreased Oil Usage Since 2009?

Dec 05, 2014 at 12:25

Reader David Epperson sent in some interesting charts on global oil usage that he produced from U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data. The data is through the end of 2013.

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Chinese GDP Surpasses USA (when Measurement Adjusted)

Dec 05, 2014 at 10:38

A story has been echoing around the financial news for a few weeks. One article about it, It's official: America is now No. 2 by Brett Arends at MarketWatch, came…

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Gold Shorting Exhaustion

Dec 05, 2014 at 10:22

Gold's been on an incredible roller-coaster ride over the past couple months, whipsawing like crazy. And contrary to popular rationalizations, these swings had absolutely nothing to do with fundamentals.

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Why OPEC Will Tolerate Cheap Oil

Dec 05, 2014 at 08:36

Despite falling oil prices, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) voted on November 27th not to cut production in order to boost prices. The key to this decision appears…

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Bitcoin Trading Alert: Bitcoin Slipping into Bearish Territory

Dec 05, 2014 at 08:34

Make no mistake about this one. Bitcoin is not yet any kind of serious competitor for credit card companies. But for the first time in years a system has emerged…

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Post Referendum Bounce

Dec 05, 2014 at 08:33

It turns out the Swiss referendum last weekend which sought to force the Swiss National Bank to maintain 20% gold reserves was a red herring so far as precious metal…

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Commodities and the Dollar

Dec 05, 2014 at 07:53

Each commodity market has its own story to tell: oil prices are falling because OPEC can't agree production cuts, steel faces a glut from overcapacity, and even the price of…