One of the beneficiaries of the mayhem in Russia has been aluminum companies. Here are a couple:

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One of the beneficiaries of the mayhem in Russia has been aluminum companies. Here are a couple:


I went through all 135 of SlopeCharts‘ futures contracts just now to pluck out a few I thought were especially interesting. Click on any image for a screen-sized version.

As I keep saying, the only asset I am cheerfully bullish is gold, and it had another good day. Yesterday I made a big point about how the plunge in gold should not be seen as a failure, because it was merely testing support. It did so, and even though “someone threw a war, and nobody came”, Gold closed ABOVE its peak on Monday. Let that sink in. We are higher NOW than we were on the brink of war!

It’s big picture time! Here are nine important futures markets with many decades of data:
