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The glare of precious metals has irresistibly drawn humanity ever since we learned how to walk. In the past, gold and silver have been widely used as currencies, to craft anything from intricate jewellery to statues and palaces, and to signify immense wealth and power.
Today, these shiny assets serve an extra function—to protect investments in times of economic turmoil.
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We would like to inform all our clients that there will be changes to the trading hours of some markets during the upcoming Christmas and New Year holidays.
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It’s no secret that the year-on-year inflation in many countries is rising at a worrisome pace. This is perhaps why recently more and more investors abandon traditional investments, like bank deposits and real estate, in favour of company shares.
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If you haven’t heard the words “blockchain”, “blockchain technology”, and “distributed ledger technology” (DLT), you must have been living under a rock for the past few years.
But most likely you have heard them repeated over and over again, touted as the greatest thing since sliced bread and the solution to all global woes.
Blockchain could do everything—create money, manage assets, transfer money, track the movement of bananas from the small farm in Ecuador to the supermarket, thus ensuring you are eating fair trade bananas, help you rent a car, manage the smart appliances in your home, offer solutions for personal identification and so on, and so forth.
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Record-low interest rates in the past decade. Surging debts on a global scale. Escalating trade tensions between leading economic powers. Extremely volatile currencies.
These are all troublesome signals that immediately raise red flags in everyone’s minds about an impending financial crisis. And rightfully so since, if history has taught us anything, it’s that markets go through repeated economic cycles of expansion and contraction.
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Every successful trader started somewhere and went through thick and thin to become rich and famous. Not everyone succeeds, of course, but there are quite a few who have become household names and serve as an inspiration for aspiring traders.