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Inflation Scorecard: Another Split Decision For Gold
Written by Brad Zigler
September 03, 2010 12:00 AM EST
Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): -2.1%

This week, gold turned in another mixed performance against the world's reserve currencies. In addition to its appreciation against the U.S. dollar, bullion gained 0.3 percent against the yen and 0.6 percent vs. sterling. Gold gave up 0.5 percent to the euro and 0.9 percent to the Swiss franc.

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Good News: A Declining Gold Indicator
Written by Brad Zigler
September 02, 2010 1:18 PM EST
Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): -2.4%

The past few weeks have been bullish for gold, in its bullion form and as an embed in mining stock prices. We've touched on the differential volatility of bullion and mining stocks before, most recently in "Appraising Gold Miners' Equity Risk." In that piece, we compared the performance and volatility of the Market Vector Gold Miners ETF (NYSE Arca: GDX) and its components to bullion proxied by the SPDR Gold Shares Trust (NYSE Arca: GLD).

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Weekly Oil Roundup: A Middling Crude Build
Written by Brad Zigler
September 01, 2010 12:19 PM EST
Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): -2.4%

U.S. crude prices fell sharply on Tuesday, but ratcheted upward overnight ahead of the week's U.S. Energy Department inventory report release.

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Ethanol On The Rise: New Life For Refiners?
Written by Brad Zigler
August 31, 2010 11:05 AM EST
Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): -2.1%

Summer's winding down and with it, demand for gasoline. Wholesale unleaded gasoline blendstock prices have dipped 7 percent since the end of June, as inventories have risen to five-month highs.

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Ah ... Contango Memories
Written by Brad Zigler
August 30, 2010 1:23 PM EST
Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): -2.3%

The tango has long been known as the dance of love. Around the NYMEX trading ring, the ‘tango—the locals' shorthand for contango—has as many lovers as detractors. Contango is the pricing phenomenon characterized by successively higher back-month prices. For example, a $2.98 contango was evident on Friday when October 2010 WTI crude oil finished at $75.17 a barrel, and January 2011 crude settled at $78.15.

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  About Brad
Brad Zigler's stints as a contributing
editor for the Corporate Communica-
tions Broadcast Network, the Journal
of Indexes, and CRB Trader have set
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