10 charts - Bespoke's Commodity Snapshot - With gold breaking to record highs every day lately, we thought now was as good a time as any to update our commodity snapshot.  Below we provide our trading range charts for ten major commodities. In each chart, the green shading represents between two standard deviations above and below the 50-day moving average.  Moves above or below the green zone are considered overbought or oversold. – Bespoke Investment Group
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How Oliver Stone Got the Greed Right - By Joe Pompeo - A cadre of trading floor veterans helped Oliver Stone capture the details and nail the nuances in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - BusinessWeek

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Finance Innovation and Risk Waves - Nick Gogerty - Designing Better Futures

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Doug Kass: Political Gridlock Will Slam The Markets - Joe Weisenthal -  Doug Kass is on CNBC this morning, talking a lot of politics, ... But unlike many of the other folks who you see on TV, he's not so sanguine about what will happen to the markets when the GOP takes over in November.He's certainly not buying into the tripe about gridlock being good for the markets. Instead he says it will be "valuation destructive" (codeword for stocks will fall) - Money Game at Business Insider

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[Video] Appaloosa's David Tepper - Ben Bernanke Will Make Everything Go Up in the Can't Lose - posted by TraderMark -  Famous value hedge fund manager David Tepper said out loud what has been the thought process of many... essentially what PIMCO's Bill Gross hinted at Tuesday.  Outright manipulation of asset prices is here again - enjoy.  The Bernanke Put is making the infamous Greenspan Put look like child's play. - Fund My Mutual Fund

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(lots of points) The Cure for High Prices - David Galland - With gold poking its fair-haired head over the top of $1,300 today, a new record, many dear readers are wondering if this rally is sustainable. Reader and correspondent Mike B. sent along the following chart, which offers a useful road map to any secular bull market. - Casey's Daily Dispatch