Commodity markets hit their highest levels for months on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve gave nascent investor confidence a fillip by unveiling plans to buy more government bonds and mortgage debt.

Gold futures fell Thursday for a fourth straight session to near $940 an ounce as higher stock markets and crude prices reduced safe-haven buying.

Crude-oil futures rose to trade above $43 a barrel Thursday, buoyed by a decline in gasoline inventories as well as an impending higher open on Wall Street.

A ruinous scheme in which con artists lure unsuspecting investors into believing that their funds can be used to purchase securities (PRIME BANK GUARANTEES, DEBENTURES, TREASURIES, PROMISSORY NOTES, LETTERS OF CREDIT) at enormous DISCOUNT and sell them for equally enormous profits, typically during a forty-week turnaround.
ARBITRAGE, the purchase of FRESH-CUT SECURITIES from a CUTTING HOUSE which are then sold to the SECONDARY MARKET, FORFAITING, DISCOUNT HOUSES or DISCOUNT BANKS, SELF-LIQUIDATING LOANS, or a combination of all of these terms incorrectly used with wild abandon.
The financial instruments are always issued from a TOP WORLD BANK or PRIME BANK, and a great deal of secrecy is always paramount.

Russia and Ukraine said Sunday they’ve reached a deal to resume the distribution of natural gas to Europe, ending a dispute that has disrupted the gas flow for about two weeks, hampering economic activity and leaving some people unable to heat their homes.

Under the agreement, Ukraine will get a 20% discount off European prices for Russian gas this year, and will pay European prices starting in 2010, reports said. Meanwhile, the transit fees Russia pays will remain unchanged from last year.