It’s staging what I would call a catch-up move. After resisting the upward pull of silver all week long, the market couldn’t hold back any more and is making up for lost time here.

This is really just some short-term consolidation. We are inside of yesterday’s range.

Stocks have a tendency toward a counter-seasonal rise in early January … but the mild readings this time around make a further 2 to 3 million barrel build more likely than the 1.1 million barrel...

The fact that their pricing mechanism is market-related minimizes the risk that a physical shortage would arise.

This would be completely benign.

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Profit-taking was the most widely employed term for what (happened Friday), but we see the potential for this simple turn to develop into a much more substantial decline, as the fundamentals behind the push higher...

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There is a very strong consensus that gold will continue its trend higher this year and that, in itself, is a warning sign.

If we were to see another major storm, we could have damage on damage.

The markets are all doing their best spin jobs off the latest round of DOE data, but there were really no significant surprises. The overall economic importance of the data is still bearish.

Everything pretty much came within the range of expectations so there were no dramatic surprises here.

Despite the surprise 1.3 million-barrel drop in DOE crude stocks for last week, inventories in the market remain near April 1999 highs.

A 40-cent rise in gasoline prices does not stimulate demand, and frankly this is where I think many macroeconomic forecasts for 2006 are going to miss the mark.

He’s a politician, though. He’s definitely more of a politician than some judges, … He moves around in political circles, goes to the political fundraisers and stuff like that.