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As stock markets tumble, gold buying gone bananas, telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/gold/12151770/Investors-go-bananas-for-gold-bars-as-global-stock-markets-tumble.html

BullionByPost, Britain's biggest online gold dealer, said it has already taken record-day sales of £5.6m as traders pile into gold following fears the world is on the brink of another financial crisis.
Rob Halliday-Stein, founder and managing director of the Birmingham-based company, said takings today had already surpassed the firm's previous one-day record of £4.4m in October 2014.
BullionByPost, which takes orders of up to £25,000 on the website but takes higher amounts over the phone, explained it had received a few hundred orders overnight and frantic numbers of phone calls this morning.
"The bullion market has been building with interest since the end of last year but this morning things have gone bananas," said Mr Halliday-Stein. "Some bankers in London are placing unusually large orders for physical gold."
Nothing has been fixed since 2008, it was just pushed into the future

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  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,133 Forumite
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    Gold is just not as silvery as silver - I'm out....
    I think....
  • padington
    padington Posts: 3,121 Forumite
    AG47 wrote: »
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/gold/12151770/Investors-go-bananas-for-gold-bars-as-global-stock-markets-tumble.html

    BullionByPost, Britain's biggest online gold dealer, said it has already taken record-day sales of £5.6m as traders pile into gold following fears the world is on the brink of another financial crisis.
    Rob Halliday-Stein, founder and managing director of the Birmingham-based company, said takings today had already surpassed the firm's previous one-day record of £4.4m in October 2014.
    BullionByPost, which takes orders of up to £25,000 on the website but takes higher amounts over the phone, explained it had received a few hundred orders overnight and frantic numbers of phone calls this morning.
    "The bullion market has been building with interest since the end of last year but this morning things have gone bananas," said Mr Halliday-Stein. "Some bankers in London are placing unusually large orders for physical gold."

    I'm tempted to be honest. I think it's time for 1% hedge.
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  • kinger101
    kinger101 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
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    michaels wrote: »
    Gold is just not as silvery as silver - I'm out....

    I'd be in, but I've just shifted my portfolio to tulip bulbs now.
    "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius
  • C_Mababejive
    C_Mababejive Posts: 11,668 Forumite
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    This is just paper talk and hype. The time to buy gold is when its low, not when its high.
    Feudal Britain needs land reform. 70% of the land is "owned" by 1 % of the population and at least 50% is unregistered (inherited by landed gentry). Thats why your slave box costs so much..
  • malkie76
    malkie76 Posts: 6,170 Forumite
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    This is just paper talk and hype. The time to buy gold is when its low, not when its high.

    Depends if you want to make a profit or simply hold onto an investment.
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