Posts Tagged ‘Gold’

22
Sep

Buying and Selling Gold Jewelry from Tomei

TomeiLast week, I went shopping with my wife looking for jewelry for my brother-in-law. He is getting married end of this year. As Chinese, it is customary for close siblings to give Gold during tea ceremony. We decided that it is best that we buy at today’s price rather than buying year end’s price. This is my first experience in buying gold from a local jewelry shop.

We headed down to Sungai Wang Plaza as there are few big franchise jewelry shops. After checking out few shops, we locked our eyes on a simple but elegant gold 916 bracelet from Tomei Jewelry shop located at BB Plaza. Gold was priced at RM205/gram that day.

We started bargaining.
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19
Sep

Eric Sprott: Silver Is Investment Of This Decade

Eric Sprott of Sprott.com and James Turk, of GoldMoney Foundation, talk about how there isn’t enough silver in the silver market to back existing “paper silver” commitments. Sprott thinks that “silver will be the investment of this decade”.
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7
Sep

Kijang Emas Spread Margin Check!

Kijang EmasI was doing my regular check on Kijang Emas price via Bank Negara website and to my surprise, the difference between the buying and selling price for 1 oz of Kijang Emas is now RM233!

Wow, that’s a huge gap!

I previously wrote an article about spread back in July and I shared with you how we can calculate the spread for gold and silver. You can read the post here: Understanding Spread for Buying and Selling Gold or Silver

It’s a little bit passed 2.00 am now so the price I am referring now is actually yesterday’s price. The buying price for Kijang Emas is RM6,014 and selling price is RM5,781. RM233 is an huge price gap in Kijang Emas price history.

Armed with Excel, I dived into the historic data on Kijang Emas prices and crunched it to check if the spread is still the same during this current wild bull ride on precious metals.

Formula for Buy and Sell Spread:

(Sell Price – Buyback Price)/Buyback Price X 100 = Spread %

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3
Sep

Mike Maloney: Gold And Silver – When To Sell?

Michael Maloney or Mike Maloney has been the precious metals investment advisor to Robert Kiyosaki since 2005. His advise has prompted Robert Kiyosaki to buy a large amount of silver when silver was priced at around $USD4/ozt.

2
Sep

Perth Mint’s Line Up for 2012

Perth Mint’s 2012 line up. Among all, the lunar dragon for gold and silver is the most anticipated.

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