Next Friday May 24th in London, England we will be having our very first “Hunt 4 Gold” competition, where we will be giving away the latest soon to be announced member of the Goldgenie family worth £1,697. The competition winner will be the first person in world to own our version of the prize.
How to take part:
You must have a twitter account, follow the @goldgenie twitter account and have mobile access to twitter.
We will tweet at 11am on Friday Morning. You will retweet our tweet making sure you include the hashtag #Goldgenie(and the products name) and #Hunt4Gold.
We will then give you clues to where we will be.
We will then announce our location at 5:45pm the first person to find our team (who will be wearing their white Goldgenie T-shirts from 6:15pm) and show them their retweet and that they are following @goldgenie (so you’ll need your mobile with you) will win the £1,697 prize.
ALL of the above instructions must be followed.
The competition is open to the general public. Unfortunately Goldgenie Master Franchise and Business Opportunity owners and their friends and family will be unable to take part in this competition and will be disqualified should they attempt to claim the prize.
Goldgenie team is dazzled at the BlackBerry Live 2013 Conference
Here at Goldgenie, we have a strong relationship with global smartphone giant BlackBerry. In fact just recently, we customised their state of the art Q10 and Porsche Design models, embellishing them with gold, diamonds and crystals for the most exclusive BlackBerry customers.
With this in mind, we were keen to see what BlackBerry Live 2013 Conference in Orlando Florida had to offer – and the good news is it didn’t disappoint. A three-day tour de force featuring the Stanley Cup, meetings with key American politicians and talks by global music superstars such as Alicia Keys, one thing’s for sure – BlackBerry Live 2013 is one conference that’s anything but simply corporate. Highlights included:
Government Day – Kicking off BlackBerry Live 2013, this was a chance for leading politicians to talk about global communication strategies. Experts from the brand were there to talk about safe, connected, user-friendly mobile solutions for law enforcement, government and healthcare. Furthermore, users, industry leaders and BlackBerry experts took part in an Industry Mobility Leadership Panel to talk through obstacles and solutions. It was easy to see why BlackBerry is the brand of choice for so many global organisations and leading individuals.
New SharePoint Client – BlackBerry also rang in a new SharePoint client, Harmon.ie. for the BlackBerry 10. Enterprise Instant Messaging for this model was introduced as well, and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 version 10.1 created a big storm at the key note speech. Enterprise 10.1 allows for much greater device control, protecting data when it matters most.
If that wasn’t enough, the BlackBerry Q5 was launched – a more affordable option for those who covet the BlackBerry brand but who have been unable to purchase the Z10 or the Q10, with their high end price tags.
Alicia Keys dropped the BlackBerry Scholars Program bomb, sponsoring and promoting careers for women in technology. And to top it off, the Keep Moving Projects initiative was announced, set to revolutionise the traditional celebrity endorsement model. Under this innovation, famous faces approach BlackBerry themselves, pitching meaningful projects for the brand to be involved in – initiatives that will enhance global inter-connection and provide social benefit in some way.
All in all, BlackBerry Live 2013 took to task the challenge of pushing forward in an industry that is constantly evolving. Key themes were innovation and social responsibility. It was easy to see just how much the BlackBerry brand is about the facilitation of lives and work that won’t wait. Their slogan ‘Keep Moving’ says it all.
Following the stunning success of the Samsung Galaxy S3, Samsung have just released the latest incarnation in their Galaxy family, and it’s a phone tipped by some to seriously compete with the iPhone 5. If you’re wondering what phone to get, then take some time to read this review of the latest Android offering.
Aesthetics
The way that the S4 looks may be one of the only things that users feel could be improved, but nevertheless Samsung have continued with a similar design that has made them into the mobile phone giants they are – they must be doing something right.
In terms of the overall look, Samsung have continued down the route of the screen covering the majority of the front of the phone, which looks good and also ensures that a maximum amount of screen is available for photos, videos and webpages. One big bonus is that the size has not increased at all from the S3 – highly impressive since this phone is a lot more powerful.
Display
The S4’s display is one of its the biggest selling points, and for good reason. The Samsung offering certainly rivals Apple’s ‘Retina Display’ and the result is a stunning screen that is great for surfing the web, checking out photos or watching your favourite TV show. It’s also bigger than the screen on the S3 – no mean feat considering the size of the phone hasn’t changed.
Functionality
The S4’s performance is notably better than its predecessor, and that’s as a direct result of a new quad-core processor that enables it to work very hard indeed. It also offers a bunch of new features that aim to set it apart from the rest of the competition. It can be used as a TV/DVD remote, which is very handy indeed and offers a micro SD card slot for increased storage. It also features a user replacement battery, bucking the trend for self contained batteries among smartphones and this is actually very handy indeed as it allows you to carry a spare battery with you when your phone runs out.
Drawbacks
As mentioned, some may feel that the aesthetics of the phone could be improved, but when you’ve got a phone that can do what this one can you’re unlikely to complain. Some testers have experienced slight issues with the power button whilst the camera can be a bit hit and miss but generally they are both features that work well. The new software features are great but the sheer multitude of them can be confusing until you’ve had a chance to really absorb yourself in what your new phone can offer you.
Conclusion
The S4 is certainly as good as anything else currently on the market and will certainly delight Samsung fans eager for the latest dose of technology from the Korean giant.
We all like a little bit of luxury in our lives and we all love to bestow and receive gifts from the people we’re close to. However, everyone likes different things and more often than not, men and women have different ideas of what makes a gift truly luxurious. If you’re a man looking for the perfect gift ideas for her, check out this top 5 luxury gifts for women.
Jewellery
A classic option for a reason; nothing says luxury like a pair of diamond earrings, a precious stone, or a beautiful necklace. Women and jewellery have gone hand in hand for centuries, and the right pieces can help inject some glamour and sophistication into a woman’s life. There are plenty of options to choose from – pendants, bracelets, rings – all of which are sure to delight.
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Perfume
Perfume is a diverse and useful tool in a woman’s life; they use different scents for different occasions, there are scents for the day and scents for the evening, scents for summer and scents for winter, the list goes on. It’s easy enough to pick up a bottle from behind the counter at your local chemists, but why not be daring and splash out on a designer fragrance for her?
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Handbags
Many jokes have been made about women and their apparent fascination with handbags, but it remains that handbags are incredibly useful as well as a handy accessory. Why not make her day to day life a little more luxurious with a designer handbag? She can carry everything she needs and look fabulous whilst doing it.
Recommended Product: Calvin Klein Collection Colour Block Shoulder Bag
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Special Trips
Your gifts don’t always have to be typical; sometimes it’s good to think outside the box. Give her a special day out, be it a long weekend or a day at the spa. There are plenty of luxury package deals to be found on the internet that cover all kinds of activities; it might cost you a little more money, but she’ll have a great time.
Recommended Product: Spa Day Special Getaway Incl. Massage and Bubbly – The Spa at Brook Mollington Banastre Hotel.
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Beauty Products
Beauty products are another firm favourite for woman, and replicating the spa experience in the home is a fine luxury gift indeed. Treat her to a gift basket stuffed with high-end and indulgent soaps, creams, candles, everything she could possibly need to truly pamper herself. There are sites that will allow you to build up a basket from scratch, so you can pick and choose the very best products available.
Recommended Product: Queen of Pamper Gift Basket
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In some ways Blackberry appear to have gone back to basics with their latest smartphone offering – the Q10 – but nevertheless this is the most technologically advanced phone from Research In Motion yet. No doubt diehard Blackberry fans will love it, but if you’re not sure; read on to learn the pros and cons of the latest phone to come out fighting in the ultra-competitive smartphone market.
Aesthetics
Popularised by business types all over the globe, it seems unlikely that Blackberry will ever depart considerably from the sleek and black design that dominates the majority of their phones. There’s good reason for that, as the Q10 looks and feels great. No complaints in that regard.
Display
In the past, one of Blackberry’s biggest selling points was the QWERTY keyboard that offers users the option of actually typing on a physical keyboard. So far in the ‘10’ series this QWERTY keyboard has been absent, but as you can see, it has made a return for the Q10. There’s not much to say about the keyboard – you either like it or you don’t – but it is worth noting that it does cut down the screen size; so if you’re planning on watching many movies on your phone then that should be taken into consideration. The screen itself is impressive – it offers a 3.1-inch SuperAMOLED display.
Functionality
The good news is that Q10 performs considerably better than its predecessor. The Q10 is definitely the fastest Blackberry yet, and competes well with the other smartphone giants on the market. It also offers an easy and hassle-free way to transfer all your data via the Blackberry Link software. The battery life is fairly standard and generally equals most smartphones currently on the market, but it should get you through the day even if you are using it quite a lot.
Drawbacks
One of the big changes with the Q10 is that emails and messages are no longer regarded as ‘Blackberry services’, which means that they will now come out of your data allowance. In terms of usability, fans of the Blackberry may be disappointed that the Q10 doesn’t offer a one-button dial facility, and despite the camera being an 8.1 megapixel one, it’s no great shakes in comparison to other phones on the market. Perhaps the biggest drawback is the price, but if you like Blackberry then you like Blackberry and that’s something worth paying for.
Conclusions
The Q10 is Blackberry’s best phone yet (it recently became the fastest selling phone in Selfridges history), and a return to the QWERTY keyboard may well see many of their previous customers return. Still the standard in business, the Blackberry Q10 will appeal to a particular market and should do well in that particular bracket.
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London Gold Market Report
by Ben Traynor
BullionVault
Friday 26 April 2013, 07:45 EST
“Gold Shortage” Seen in Asia with “Physical Market Still Tight”
GOLD drifted lower towards $1460 an ounce Friday morning in London, having climbed to its highest level since last week’s price drop at $1485 during Asian trading.
“The next resistance level is $1487,” says a note from technical analysts at Scotia Mocatta published late Thursday.
“Should we trade through that, we believe it will open up a full retracement to the $1522 lows…support is at $1322.”
Silver meantime rose as high as $24.86 an ounce in Friday’s Asian trading before falling back, while stocks and commodities fell and US Treasuries gained ahead of the release of provisional first quarter US GDP figures.
Heading into the weekend, gold in Dollars was up around 4% on the week by Friday lunchtime in London, set for its biggest weekly gain since early September 2012. Silver meantime was up 2.9%.
Over in Asia, “there’s panic buying [of physical gold products],” says Ronald Leung, chief dealer at Hong Kong’s Lee Cheong Gold Dealers.
“Everybody is buying gold…the physical market is still tight. The thing is that there are no immediate stocks.”
Wholesale dealers have this week reported premiums over the spot gold price of around $3 an ounce in Hong Kong and Singapore, and as high as $10 in Mumbai.
“You must be prepared to pay up,” one Singapore dealer told newswire Reuters this morning.
“I would think premiums will remain high in the short-term because of a shortage in immediate stocks. You have to wait for three days if you want to get gold now.”
According to a senior bullion bank executive speaking to BullionVault Thursday, Swiss capacity for producing kilo bars – the preferred form of gold bullion amongst private investors in Asia – is currently booked out until the end of May.
The US Mint meantime has sold 306,500 ounces of American Eagle gold coins so far this month, almost three times the volume sold in March.
“Although impressive in its scale,” says the latest commodities note from investment bank Natixis, “this retail demand will need to be sustained for a prolonged period if it is to offset not just the absence of [institutional investment] demand, but also potentially new investor sales in the coming weeks.”
As of Thursday, the world’s biggest gold exchange traded fund SPDR Gold Trust (ticker: GLD) has seen outflows of 42.7 tonnes from a week earlier, taking total holdings to just under 1090.3 tonnes, their lowest level since September 2009.
“Heavy disinvestment from ETF investors is being offset by strong physical demand in key markets such as India and China,” says a note from Australian bank Macquarie, “but neither of these is likely to continue indefinitely, and which runs its course first could determine whether the price moves $100 an ounce higher or lower.”
On the currency markets, the Euro drifted lower against the Dollar but remained above $1.30. The Euro gold price meantime looked set for a 4.7% weekly gain at €1126 an ounce. By comparison, gold in Sterling was up only 2.8% on the week at £947 an ounce after the Pound rallied yesterday following news that the UK avoided recession in Q1.
In Switzerland meantime, the chairman of the country’s central bank today criticized proposals that would prevent his institution from selling any of its gold reserves, arguing it could hinder monetary policy.
Consumer price deflation accelerated in Japan last month, with the consumer price index down -0.9% year-on-year compared to -0.8% for February, official data published Friday show.
Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda told a press conference that “there were no calls…for further monetary easing” at today’s central bank policy meeting, where policymakers decided to leave interest rates at 0.1%.
“For the time being,” said Kuroda, “the BOJ will be buying 50 trillion Yen of government bonds annually to expand the monetary base by 60 trillion to 70 trillion Yen each year.”
Two BOJ board members dissented from the central bank’s projection that inflation will reach 2% over the next three years, Kuroda revealed.
Ben Traynor
BullionVault
Gold value calculator | Buy gold online at live prices
Editor of Gold News, the analysis and investment research site from world-leading gold ownership service BullionVault, Ben Traynor was formerly editor of the Fleet Street Letter, the UK’s longest-running investment letter. A Cambridge economics graduate, he is a professional writer and editor with a specialist interest in monetary economics. Ben can be found on Google+
(c) BullionVault 2013
Please Note: This article is to inform your thinking, not lead it. Only you can decide the best place for your money, and any decision you make will put your money at risk. Information or data included here may have already been overtaken by events – and must be verified elsewhere – should you choose to act on it.
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London Gold Market Report
by Ben Traynor
BullionVault
Monday 22 April 2013, 07:30 EST
Gold’s Action “Dominated by Retail Buying” But Bullion “Not Trading as Safe Haven”
WHOLESALE gold prices rose back above $1430 per ounce Monday morning for the first time since last Monday’s price drop, amid reports of strong buying in Asia, while stocks gained and US Treasuries fell.
Silver meantime ticked higher above $23.60 an ounce, though remained below Friday’s high, while other commodities also gained with the exception of copper.
Last week’s upturn in physical gold buying in Asia continued over the weekend according to some local press reports, with the South China Morning Post reporting “a rush of buyers” in Hong Kong.
Gold exchange traded funds by contrast continued to see outflows towards the end of last week.
“It remains to be seen which of these offsetting forces eventually wins out and exerts its influence over gold prices,” says Ed Meir, metals analyst at brokerage INTL FCStone.
“Our guess is that the sharp bounce in retail buying will likely dominate and succeed in sending prices higher over the course of the next week or two.”
“Gold is still not trading as a safe haven asset,” adds VTB Capital an analyst Andrey Kryuchenkov, “swinging back and forth in line with other metals in the precious complex, other liquid commodities and equities…volumes will remain very thin as players digest the latest pullback.”
“The aggressiveness of [last week's] fall suggests that we are still in a consolidation rather in a reversal role,” says Tim Riddell, head of ANZ Global Markets Research, Asia.
“The $1435 level is likely to provide resistance…we really need to get back into the $1500s to say that there’s something more substantial taking place.”
On New York’s Comex exchange, “the liquidation of net speculative length [in gold contracts] appeared relatively mild [in the week ended last Tuesday],” says Standard Bank commodity strategist Marc Ground, referring to money managers’ so-called net speculative long position, calculated as the difference between the number of bullish and bearish contracts held.
“Only [the equivalent of] 20.8 tonnes (or 5.8%) were shed over the week — a long way from the worst we’ve seen this year (90.4 tonnes at the end of January). relatively strong unwinding of long positions (35.8 tonnes compared to this year’s record of 45.9 tonnes) was softened by a solid decrease in speculative shorts (15.0 tonnes).”
Ratings agency Fitch meantime has downgraded the UK’s credit rating from AAA to AA+, following a similar downgrade from Moody’s back in February. Standard & Poor’s has maintained its triple-A rating on British government debt.
“Despite the UK’s strong fiscal financing flexibility underpinned by its own currency with reserve currency status and the long average maturity of public debt, the fiscal space to absorb further adverse economic and financial shocks is no longer consistent with a ‘AAA’ rating,” said a statement from Fitch Friday.
“The UK and almost all of Europe have erred,” manager of world’s biggest bond fund Pimco Bill Gross tells the Financial Times, “in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You’ve got to spend money.”
Gross adds that investors in government debt “want growth much like equity investors” and that excess austerity can lead to “recession or stagnation [causing] credit spreads [to] widen out – even if a country can print its own currency and write its own checks”.
Over in Italy, the Eurozone’s biggest issuer of public debt, Giorgio Napolitano has been elected for a second term as president by the country’s parliament after it rejected the nomination of Franco Marini. Italian politicians have failed to form a government since the general election two months ago.
Russia would like to “increase its participation” in negotiations about Cyprus, the country’s finance minister Anton Siluanov has said, but will only restructure a €2.5 billion loan in return for protection of Russian financial interests in the country, Reuters reports.
“Money of our companies has been frozen there,” Siluanov told reporters at the G20 meetings in Washington at the end of last week.
“We would like this money to reach its recipients.”
Ben Traynor
BullionVault
Gold value calculator | Buy gold online at live prices
Editor of Gold News, the analysis and investment research site from world-leading gold ownership service BullionVault, Ben Traynor was formerly editor of the Fleet Street Letter, the UK’s longest-running investment letter. A Cambridge economics graduate, he is a professional writer and editor with a specialist interest in monetary economics. Ben can be found on Google+
(c) BullionVault 2013
Please Note: This article is to inform your thinking, not lead it. Only you can decide the best place for your money, and any decision you make will put your money at risk. Information or data included here may have already been overtaken by events – and must be verified elsewhere – should you choose to act on it.
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London Gold Market Report
by Ben Traynor
BullionVault
Thursday 18 April 2013, 08:00 EST
Asia “Buys the Dip” in Gold, Western Physical Demand Also Jumps But ETF Outflows Continue
WHOLESALE prices for buying gold climbed briefly above $1400 an ounce Thursday morning, having bounced from a $50-an-ounce drop overnight, with dealers reporting strong demand for physical bullion in Asia.
In Hong Kong and Macau, the number of customers visiting stores run by the world’s biggest jewelry chain, Chow Tai Fook, jumped by a quarter in the period between Saturday and Tuesday, Bloomberg reports.
“I think if prices fail to break through $1300, people will buy back,” says one gold dealer in Hong Kong.
“Asia is a good buyer of gold this year. Stocks at refiners have suddenly disappeared after prices dropped more than $200 [an ounce], and it takes time to manufacture gold bars. Supply is a bit tight. Premiums will move higher next week.”
“The culture in Asia is such that they will absorb the physical metal when the price drops,” adds Dick Poon, Hong Kong-based general manager at refiner Heraeus.
“Jewelry demand is improving and industrial customers are also buying on the dip.”
India, traditionally the world’s biggest gold buying nation, has this week seen its strongest demand so far this year, according to the All India Gems & Jewellery Federation. Thailand and Japan have also seen a strong rise in gold sales, according to local press reports.
Western investors have also shown signs of renewed appetite for bullion since gold’s price drop. Users of BullionVault, the world’s largest gold and silver provider to private investors online, were net buyers of gold for the first time in a week on Wednesday, with inflows of cash outpacing withdrawals by a wide margin.
The US Mint meantime sold 77,000 ounces of American Eagle gold coins during Tuesday and Wednesday, compared to just 62,000 ounces for the whole of March.
“Gold was set up for having a proper correction,” says well-known investor Jim Rogers.
“This may be the proper correction and, if so, then it will make a bottom and we can all buy gold again because it is going to be much higher over the decade.”
The world’s biggest gold exchange traded fund meantime continued to see outflows Wednesday.
The total volume of gold backing shares in the SPDR Gold Trust (ticker: GLD), fell to 1134.8 tonnes, down from 1221.3 tonnes at the start of this month. Holdings of all gold ETFs tracked by Bloomberg are down 3.5% to 2364.9 tonnes this month.
Like gold, silver bounced off an overnight low to end Thursday morning in London back above $23.50 an ounce, while stocks and commodities regained some ground after this week’s losses and US Treasuries dipped.
Japan’s exports to the US in the year to end March were up 10% from a year earlier, while exports to China dropped 9%, making the US the number one destination for Japanese exports for the first time since 2009, figures published by the country’s finance ministry Thursday show.
“This weakness [of exports to China] is more structural than cyclical,” Kyohei Morita, chief economist at Barclays in Tokyo.
China’s annualized economic growth rate slowed to 7.7% in the first quarter, according to figures released by Beijing earlier this week, down from 7.9% in the previous quarter. Ratings agency Moody’s lowered its outlook on China from ‘positive’ to ‘stable’ this week, noting concerns over local government debt levels.
In Washington, leaders meeting for the G20 meeting that begins today are expected to commit their countries not to weaken their currencies with a view to gaining a trade advantage, Bloomberg reports. A similar pledge was made in aG7 statement earlier this year.
A month before that statement, Bank of England governor Mervyn King told an audience in Belfast that “between late 2007 and the beginning of 2009…an adjustment of Sterling…was certainly necessary for a full rebalancing of our economy”.
Italy’s parliament began voting on a new president Thursday, with the bloc led by Pier Luigi Bersani’s Democratic Party – which won the most votes of any alliance in February’s general election but not enough to form a government – nominating former Senate speaker Franco Marini, who was rejected in this morning’s first round of voting.
Once a president is elected their first task will be to preside over the forming of a government, which will involve either a coalition of rival parties, fresh elections, or the appointment of another technocrat prime minister.
Ben Traynor
BullionVault
Gold value calculator | Buy gold online at live prices
Editor of Gold News, the analysis and investment research site from world-leading gold ownership service BullionVault, Ben Traynor was formerly editor of the Fleet Street Letter, the UK’s longest-running investment letter. A Cambridge economics graduate, he is a professional writer and editor with a specialist interest in monetary economics. Ben can be found on Google+
(c) BullionVault 2013
Please Note: This article is to inform your thinking, not lead it. Only you can decide the best place for your money, and any decision you make will put your money at risk. Information or data included here may have already been overtaken by events – and must be verified elsewhere – should you choose to act on it.
