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VIX, the blood moon and complacency

By Jeff Greenblatt | June 29, 2014

There will come a day after all these months of VIX complacency where it’s going to spike straight to the moon and I don’t think 1 out of 100 people on Wall Street is thinking about it.

Gold and inflation call it quits

By Jon Nadler | January 25, 2013

After having once again failed at the $1,696 resistance level on Wednesday, gold prices headed lower for a third straight session this morning. In the process, the pivotal 200-day moving average price near the $1,608 level was breached by sellers.

Gold treading water ahead of Fed

By Jon Nadler | April 25, 2012

Gold’s last/best chance to try for the $1,650 target ahead of the Fed today comes from a lower-than-expected US durable goods orders figure and the flicker of a QE3 hope that such a metric might give rise to among speculators.