Sherry Ann Dixon & Laban Roomes with a Goldgenie Rose
On Sunday 30th May 2010, Laban Roomes from Goldgeine was the special guest on the Sherry Dixon Show. Sherry talked to him about his childhood and the story behind the luxury gold plating company Goldgenie. You can listen to the podcast at The Sherry Dixon Show. It’s a popular show and is interactive on Sundays from 12 til 2pm on Bangradio.fm – www.bangradio.fm. Read and listen to more of Sherry Dixon on www.sherrydixon.net, www.womenonthecrossroads.com and www.bangradio.fm.
Sherry Dixon is highly respected in the ethnic community in Britain and developed a following of dedicated readers with her health, lifestyle, beauty and relationship articles. She is known to the community as the Editor for Pride Magazine in the UK where she has worked for over 10 years. Starting out as a Health & Beauty Editor of the magazine, Sherry became the Editor of Pride in 2004 and left to take up the post as Editor in Chief of SHE Caribbean in St Lucia. She has since returned to London to set up Sherry Dixon Consultancy, a Marketing and PR Consultancy and has also launched herself as an inspirational speaker. Sherry has also written for many publications including The Guardian, Sunday Observer, The Times and currently has a column titled “Dear Sherry” in The Voice.
She has done numerous televisions and radio shows helping to dispel the myths surrounding the health and beauty for women of colour. In December 2006, Sherry was brought in as the official spokesperson on TV nationwide on issues pertaining to the detriment of using skin-bleaching creams. She was heard on the GMTV LK Today Show, London Tonight on ITN, BBC Radio worldwide and BBC News and most national radio programmes in the UK. Her accolades and achievements do not end there. Sherry initially started her career in Public Relations and true to form; from research she found that there was a lack of good positive articles about beauty and skincare for women of colour. She decided to study beauty and ultimately changed careers to become one of the UK’s most talked about beauty experts in relation to make-up and skin care for women of colour.
With her wide span of knowledge of health, beauty and relationships, Sherry Dixon has now become an inspirational speaker sharing her life skills and vast knowledge to empower individuals worldwide. Her quick wit, brilliant sense of humour and warmth make her a very popular woman, which has won her many awards including EFBWBO Training Award, Dr. Nicholson Fund Award, Most Progressive Woman Award and ACWN Community Award and Patron of Harmony Trust Foundation and National Black Women Network (NBWN). Sherry is currently the CEO of a motivational website for women called Women on the Crossroads (www.womenonthecrossroads.com). She started the site so that women from around the world could communicate with each other on issues, which they feel they are not able to connect or communicate with others, whether it is family or friends. This network empowers and enables women to feel free and honest in their communicate and gain advice for others with the same mindset. The website is growing from strength to strength and has recently celebrated their one year anniversary where many celebrity motivational speakers took part. Sherry has also taken motivation to the radio where The Sherry Dixon Show is now a very popular and interactive show on Sundays from 12 til 2pm on Bangradio.fm – www.bangradio.fm
Gold Jumps on Euro Slump, “Spanish Flu” Banking Fears, and Poor US Jobs Data
THE PRICE OF GOLD in spot wholesale dealing bounced from its lowest US-price in nine sessions on Friday lunchtime in London, rallying from a dip to $1200 as the Euro currency sank to a new four-year low vs. the Dollar.
New data showed US payrolls rising by 431,000 in May – fewer than expected.
Some 400,000 of those jobs are temporary hires for the government Census.
Gold priced in Euros jumped 2.0% inside an hour, rising back above €32,100 per kilo.
British investors looking to buy gold at wholesale prices saw it cut this week’s 2.3% drop in half, briefly touching £830 an ounce.
“Upside momentum is fading [but] we believe this will be temporary,” says Walter de Wet at Standard Bank.
“We expect movements lower in gold to be bought. Investment demand remains healthy.”
New York’s SPDR Gold Trust – the world’s single-largest gold ETF – yesterday added another 21 tonnes to the bullion it holds in trust at HSBC in London.
Ticker GLD, the trust fund has swelled by 1.7% already in June, adding more than 11% to its gold holdings from the start of May.
ETFSecurities Scott Thompson said Thursday that European investors accounted for the bulk of last month’s $1 billion inflows to the ETF provider’s commodity products.
“Trading volumes have risen to around $3 billion per week,” he told a press briefing. “Gold alone accounts for around half of that figure.”
BusinessWeek reports that gold coin sales to Europe from Australia’s Perth Mint “surged in May”, with Eurozone buyers accounting for 69% of orders, compared with 51% in April.
“As soon as it was announced the European Commission was bailing out Greece, the German population decided they’d better hedge their Euros by buying precious metals,” said Ron Currie, sales and marketing director.
“We had stock before this blip in the market, then it all went,” he added, confirming that the Perth Mint is currently working “flat out” to meet demand.
Asian Gold Trading “remained lacklustre” on Friday said one dealer, however, and London trade had been “deadly quiet” ahead of the US jobs data, according to another.
Thursday’s flat close in New York equities was repeated in Tokyo and Hong Kong. European shares fell on rumors of a risky derivatives position at French bank SocGen.
Crude oil stalled at Thursday’s 1-week high. Zinc fell to its lowest level since July 2009.
Soft commodities rose, in contrast, pushing wheat and corn prices higher.
Cocoa hit a 21-year high according to Bloomberg data.
“We’re seeing cut, cut, cut in all the countries simultaneously, which is what they did in 1931 and that caused the Great Depression,” said European Trade Union Confederation head John Monks to the Associated Press today.
“[There's] quite a bit of social unrest in some countries,” he warned after meeting with Europe’s employer lobby and EU Commission president Jose Manual Barroso today – a meeting Monks said he’d called “out of despair and alarm at the prospects for growth” after all 27 European Union members announced new “austerity” budgets.
At the monetary level, the European Central Bank “is a long way from committing itself to full-scale quantitative easing,” notes CLSA’s Greed & Fear analyst Christopher Woods.
“Such a policy will only occur after a further collapse in stock markets and a further rise in credit spreads.”
Woods advises investors bet on “Spanish Flu” and take positions against Spanish banks.
Fitch Ratings downgraded several Spanish institutions on Tuesday. The central bank in Madrid says that €166 billion of the €445bn in real-estate assets held by Spain’s banking sector are “potentially troubled”.
French bank BNP Paribas said Wednesday that a “bad bank” – if not “bank-by-bank stress-testing, with subsequent recapitalization” – could be necessary in Spain.
“Gold was pretty much on a one-way street [over the last month], and it is only natural that we see a bit of a correction,” said Afshin Nabavi of MKS Finance in Geneva to Bloomberg earlier.
“In the medium to long term, this may be an opportunity to buy into dips.”
Formerly City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning in London and head of editorial at the UK’s leading financial advisory for private investors, Adrian Ash is the editor of Gold News and head of research at BullionVault – winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation, 2009 – where you can buy gold today vaulted in Zurich on $3 spreads and 0.8% dealing fees.
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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Louis Vuitton FIFA World Cup Trophy 2010 Travel Case
We have always said, if you are going to travel, travel in style and there is no reason why the FIFA 2010 World Cup should not have the luxury. Commissioned by FIFA, it was handmade in the Louis Vuitton’s historic Asnieres near Paris so you know the quality and craftsmanship is superb!
The children live, work and play on this land which is rich in gold deposits but still live in poverty, because of big contractors that come in who compulsory buy their land to mine.
Always fascinated with anything gold, one cannot forget to mention the Dior Glossy Gold sunglasses. Celebrating the 5th anniversary of the original Dior Glossy sunglasses, a limited edition range of 500 has been designed. One of the key details is the Dior logo stamped in 18 carat solid gold on the temples. Just a little bling bling for the summer.
An illegal Ghanian gold miner who has set up his own processing machinery to retrieve any gold scraps left in this derelict mine. If caught by the patrolling security, the punishment is harsh and could possibly lead to death.
Sherry Ann Dixon & Laban Roomes with a Goldgenie Rose
