The gold is one of the best developing investors instruments, which is making high profits all the time. The gold is usually having good increase of its price, stable trend and small fluctuations. The last 12 months showed that the gold is the strongest currency and this was the main reason for the gold to reach top price ever – 1576.93 USD per ounce. The gold is really good investment instrument for long term investments and usually gives you strong and quality income from your money. Really the Gold Investment Guide gives you good advices how to find the best way in the world of money and how to make money from gold investments.
The price of the gold is still strong and very high, which is usual for the gold. The global trends of the gold is really increasing and this can be easily seen when you see the charts for longer period, but definitely the gold is part of the forex, so this investment is part only from the reserves, but not from the partfolio of the banks and insurance companies.

The spread betting is useful way to make money in forex, when playing directly on the financial markets. Getting part from the forex is really easy, just with 200-300 EUR deposit and usually the websites, offering platforms for forex trade are giving high Spread Betting Bonuses, which can vary according to the company and their marketing strategy. Getting started in forex can be done with a simple demo, where you invest a lot of money and see really real movements of the currencies and their values. In this way you just play with virtual money and check how you are doing. You can check the widgets of the platform, how it function and how profitable are your decisions.
The important feature of the forex is that you are playing with much more money than you have. The forex platforms are giving you ability to invest 100 times more money than you have. Your money are just covering the differences in the values and can cover only your loses. If your loses are too big the platform will automatically sell your activities, when the balance is close to 0.

Sounds strange to suggest that the U.S. stands a risk of bankruptcy. This is considered a great scenario for the country, which rarely had the opportunity to be credited so cheap that issue debt in their own currency and which clearly showed that it can printed as much money as it needs to cover its interest obligations. In recent days however, more and more traders come to the conclusion that America may have violated its own constitutional rule for taking on new debt and to experience problems. According to data from Markit price swaps to prevent bankruptcy of the United States for a period of one year has almost tripled in just six days. The data that might be quite biased, show that the bankrupt U.S. is now more probable than that of Indonesia and Slovenia. For these developments on the market of swaps bankruptcy protection, it was because of lack of commitment and flexibility in making important decisions by Congress. Complication is facilitated by congressmen like John Bonar, according to which is better U.S. to declare bankruptcy rather than raise the limit of indebtedness not deal with deficit. The traders believed that a traditional political approach, but only until the opinion of Bonar was not supported by Stanley Drukhaymer – distinguished former hedge fund manager.
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The global economy is facing a dilemma. Efforts to support economic growth slashed interest rates in developed economies, and hot money, occurring as a result, destabilizing exchange rates and led to inflation and rising asset prices in the developing world. The accumulation of foreign reserves and placing barriers to capital flows flowing increasingly replacing tariffs and quotas in the arsenal of tools used by governments for trade protectionism. Yet, even in times when smoldering foreign wars are about to develop into open trade conflict, we must not forget one thing – it will not last forever, write Richard Dobbs, director of the McKinsey Global Institute and Michael Spence, winner of Nobel Prize for Economics in its report ‘Farewell to Cheap Capital’. The 30-year era of progressively cheaper capital to an end. The global economy will soon have to deal with problems caused by too little rather than too much capital. Worries about the hottest capital pouring too fast in emerging markets may soon be replaced by an era of financial protectionism, in which governments will limit capital flight, to protect as well as corporations and consumers by raising interest rates. Since 1980, the difference in cost of capital across countries melt due to the globalization of financial markets and lower risk premia in developing countries. Capital was abundant, as long-term interest rates also fell, primarily as a result of the reduced investment in infrastructure and production facilities. Global investment fell dramatically, leading to a decline in demand for capital, significantly higher than the growth of demand, fueled by budget surpluses in Asia. In other words, “with savings glut”, so often cited as a reason for lower interest rates, in practice proved to be a result of the decline in global investment.
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Since most European banks have moved long-awaited stress tests, they now face even more serious challenge in the coming months, namely – the collection of long-term resource for billions of dollars with which to finance lending. Card is placed on the fragile economic recovery across Europe. Unlike the U.S. the majority of European companies rely on bank financing. If banks fail to attract investors to the bond markets, they will be able to grant long term loans, which businesses to fund their investments. According to the European Central Bank (ECB) bank loans accounted for 70% of debt financing to companies in the euro area, while 80% of loans to U.S. companies raised through capital markets, reported Wall Street Journal. European governments are hoping stress tests that only 7 of 91 banks failed to pass, to reduce concerns about the health of the banking sector in Europe, encouraging investors to buy bonds of credit institutions. So far, banks face problems raising funds from markets, and instead resorted to mass services of the ECB to fund their daily operations. “The real test is whether banks will be financed at a reasonable price from the capital markets to perform their usual function in the economy,” said Gary Jenkins, head of analysis of fixed income instruments at Evolution Securities.
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Two days after the collapse of the Dow Jones Index by more than 1000 points during trading on Thursday, the government did not state the reasons. U.S. Leading Index Dow Jones Industrial Average reported 998 points or 9% drop in early trade on Thursday. Subsequently, the panic was overcome and the decline was limited to 3.2%. In Friday’s session Dow lost another 1.3 percent of its value. Growing concern about the Greek debt crisis, complemented by the growth of the Japanese yen may have led to massive sales of U.S. shares of automated trading programs. Initial theories pointed human error when entering a market order, transmits Reuters. U.S. President Barack Obama has said that regulators investigate sudden collapse of the U.S. market, which he called “unusual market activity. More than 50 people working on establishing the causes and prevent similar crashes in the future, but is still not clear whether the cause is within or outside the stock market it has shared government source close to the investigation. According to the news organization Politico regulators investigate whether the catalyst for the collapse was not a series of large transactions with futures on the S & P index on the stock exchange in Chicago. Whatever the reason, the biggest ever points drop in Dow Jones index during one session angered investors and politicians who are already rose up against Wall Street for its role in the global recession.
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The European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn rejected claims that the economic crisis in Greece will overtake Spanish as “speculation”. At a news conference in Brussels, where he presented a spring economic forecasts for the EU, Rehn said that Spain does not need such financial assistance and will be offered. “There is no need to offer such assistance. Are unlimited speculation in yesterday’s news about a possible aid from the IMF in relation to Spain. I think we need to” wings “of these false rumors, to avoid unnecessary speculation nurture already reached almost euphoric levels in some circles.” Markets yesterday reported a record drop after rumors that Spain will request financial assistance from the EU or the IMF. We recall that yesterday the IMF Director General Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the fiscal crisis risk in Greece to reach the other weaker European economies. But he stressed that the immediate danger is not referring to that state of Portugal and Spain. In an interview with French newspaper “parasite” Strauss-Kahn said that should prevent such “contaminated” by developing a plan for Greece pursues precisely this purpose.
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The British oil company BP took responsibility for the crisis in the oil patch in the Gulf of Mexico and will pay all expenses necessary to clean the oil spill, world agencies reported. The company management expects that the liquidation of stain will take two to three months. According to U.S. experts cleaning may cost about $ 3 billion. U.S. President Barack Obama has promised that the government will do everything in its power to address oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama visited Louisiana to inspect the activities address the spill and warned of the danger of an unprecedented ecological disaster. He blamed the disaster began on April 20, oil company BP, which owns the sunken oil platforms, and said that she will have to pay. However, U.S. federal law limits the liability of the company in case of an oil spill to $ 75 million addition, giant British undertook to “cover all legal claims for compensation for damages and losses incurred. As examples indicating loss of property of people and trade losses. Among the first victims of oil stain, which is approaching the coast of Louisiana and Alabama were local fishermen.
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The European Central Bank expressed its concern that there might be a new wave of financial crisis. Тоэзи time the focus will stand the fiscal problems of states and the servicing of their debts. For this alert member of the executive board of the bank’s Juergen Stark said on WallStreet Jornal. He said that the U.S. and Japan, which already came out of technical recession may be facing difficulties that are associated with public finance. According to Stark has not paid enough attention to the lack of balance between trade deficits and surpluses in key regions such as North America and Asia. Most probably we have already entered the next phase of the crisis – that the debts are guaranteed by governments, which was preceded by financial and economic one. Many EU countries do not benefit from this heal their finances during the strong economic growth in recent decades. Ultimately we see what happened with Greece and Spain, Portugal and Ireland, which reduced their budget deficits.
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The German banks make money at the expense of Greece, gave Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos accused. He explained that this occurs when his country is waiting from Berlin and the EU assistance to remedy its financial system. “What can be seen from the German position is that banks in Germany have speculated with the bonds to its counterparts in the euro area, as allowed to play with the fate of unhappy people in my country, while on their back in Germany, make money,” said Pangalos. With almost 43 billion euro loan banks are Germany’s biggest creditor of Greece. Berlin last week to oppose the idea of providing new financial assistance to Athens and said that the Greek government only has to cope with the crisis. Greek deputy is one of the most fierce opponents of Germany. His name was implicated in a month ago, the media war between the German magazine Focus, and two Greek newspapers. Pangalos then Germany criticized the attitude of the Greek financial crisis, stressing that Athens never received adequate reparations for World War II. And came to an official note from the the German Foreign Ministry, which said that discussions about the past do not help to solve today’s problems. Now Pangalos prosecution argued with Germany’s export expansion. “Although the countries of Southern Europe suffer from the fall of the euro, German exports because of rising profits, which made massive Germany”, said Deputy Prime Minister of our southern neighbor.
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