Richard's blog

Virtual or real?

20-02-2018

Stories of people making a lot of money in no time, with digital currencies such as Bitcoin, are obviously the stuff of dreams. But if you look at the reality behind this fairytale for a moment, you'll quickly notice these 'cryptocurrencies' have gone through extreme fluctuations. In other words, who gambles well makes a lot of money, who gambles poorly is in danger of losing...

A golden opportunity?

13-02-2018

Investors keeping an eye on the gold market are aware a significant increase in the gold price may very well happen soon. If that's the case, whoever buys gold now is bound to make a nice profit. The financial market is never fully predictable. Still some trends keep returning. The currency fluctuations are remarkably similar to the ones during the period 2008 - 2009,...

Cautious optimism

06-02-2018

As the gold price is inversely proportional to the value of the American dollar, we currently notice the gold price is clearly increasing. In Europe the effect is slightly less significant, since the dollar-euro exchange rate also plays an important role. Still we too have been recording, on average, an increasing gold value. The confidence in gold is rather...

Launch of the new website

03-02-2018

Today all our websites turn into one greater whole. You'll find much more information about our products and services than on the former sites. On top of that, the gold prices are now realtime, as they are automatically updated every five minutes.

Impact on the gold price?

03-02-2018

President Trump's new tax plan has considerably increased the interest rate on American government bonds. At the moment, we're already at 2.75 %. Normally, this kind of increased interest rate isn't the best news for the gold price. But according to calculations by the World Gold Council, there would only be an adverse effect in case of a 4 % interest rate. And such...

Blog overview

Virtual or real?

20-02-2018

A golden opportunity?

13-02-2018

Cautious optimism

06-02-2018

Launch of the new website

03-02-2018

Impact on the gold price?

03-02-2018

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