Bullion News

• Knitted poncho
  I have finished the poncho I was working on! Actually, I finished it 2 nights ago but had to wait until last night to take a decent shot of it in natural light. This is made from all acrylic yarns. I used 2 yarns held together throughout. The main yarn is a nice medium blue with a light heathered dy ... […]
• Reminder: The Facebook IPO Won't Make You Rich [Facebook Ipo]
  It's Facebook IPO day! After months of SEC reviews and roadshows and profiteering, FB will finally take its place in the Nasdaq menagerie when markets opens at 9:30 EST. Time to start digging up your backyard bullion stash, right? Wrong. For the average guy the Facebook IPO is strictly Like, don't t ... […]
• What We're Reading ~ 5/18/12
  Since we're busy writing the brand new issue of our Hedge Fund Wisdom newsletter that is due out early next week, here are some links for the mean time: If you missed it, notes from the Ira Sohn Conference [Market Folly] Putting lipstick on the pig at Chesapeake Energy [Footnoted] Peter Thiel on wha ... […]
• Auguries — Is There None Such?
  By Kevin Michael Grace Gold was down (at press time) $20.50 (-1.3%) for the week to $1,574.40, and silver was down $1.04 (-3.6%) to $28.06. Gold gained $38.40 Thursday; the Financial Times attributed this to “heightening expectations of further US monetary stimulus, as weak manufacturing data in the ... […]
• Closing Bell: TSX flat as energy, gold stocks rise, financials back off on Greek anxiety
  TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed little changed Thursday as energy and gold stocks advanced after worries about the future of the eurozone pushed commodity prices to multi-month lows this week. Here are the closing numbers TSX — 11330.68 +4.60 +0.04% S&P 500 — 1304.86 -19.94 -1.51% Dow — 12 ... […]