,如美元走弱,在30-31入反的銀,
【國際財經視野】 - 第12集
2012年5月1日星期二
2012年4月30日星期一
Perth Mint Designer Wade Robinson
Wade Robinson has worked at the Perth Mint for almost a decade. During this time he has had an opportunity to work on many programs which have engaged his passion for creating coins for young collectors and his passion for general knowledge.
One of his most memorable experiences was his work on the Perth Mint's first Silver Kangaroo coin which was mass produced in high relief. Released in 2010, the one ounce silver proof coin featured a scene of two kangaroos boxing in the outback. These coins were made with an extra-deep blank to accommodate the detailed high relief design.
“We are innovative in the mass production of high relief coins and I thoroughly enjoy creating a detailed design which has outstanding impact. I was very privileged to have the opportunity to work on The Perth Mint’s first Silver Kangaroo which incorporated deeper strike results for a spectacular finish. Demand for this particular coin was extremely high and it was great to be a part of it.”
The High Relief Silver Kangaroo has become an annual release, with the 2011-dated coin still available and the 2012-dated coins scheduled for release in July. The success of these issues has led to other high relief silver proof coins such as the recently released Year of the Dragon coin and the 2012 Kookaburra coin scheduled for release on May 1, 2012.
Perth Mint Creations
Wade
Robinson studied at Central TAFE School of Art and Design, where he
earned an Advanced Diploma in Graphic Design. He then worked as a
primary school teacher and illustrator of school books and educational
material. Since commencing employment at the Perth Mint in 2003, he has
had a number of opportunities to design coins that engage a child’s
imagination and inspire them to take a lifelong interest in the hobby of
coin collecting.Most recently, along with the rest of the team, Wade helped create the 2012 Young Collectors Animal Athletes program. This new series features some amazing creatures that can accomplish incredible feats. Wade's particular favorite, the Rhinoceros Beetle, is due for release later this year in September. The first release in the series, which is already available, features boxing kangaroos.
Another series that stands out for Wade is the Australian Sea Life II Series of silver proof coins.
“I worked on the Sea Life Series right from the initial in-depth research through to illustration, design and packaging. This particular coin program is inspired by Australia’s coral reefs and includes the Hawksbill Turtle, Starfish, Surgeonfish, Octopus, and Manta Ray. I have a real passion for general knowledge so it was extremely interesting to learn more about these amazing animals and bring them to life on coins.”
As
part of the collaborative creative process undertaken at The Perth
Mint, Wade has been involved in the design of a number of other coin
programs. He worked on the entire Famous Battles in Australian History
series. This program is inspired by the service and sacrifice that
underpins Australian military history – Gallipoli, Tobruk, Kokoda,
Kapyong, and Long Tan – the fabric of heroic legend. The first release,
Gallipoli, is now sold out, with the other coins in the series expected
to follow the trend.Wade has also greatly contributed to the 2012 Ships That Changed the World series, the 2010 Great Warriors series, and the ongoing Australian Antarctic Territory coin program.
“I thoroughly enjoy my role at The Perth Mint and I’m looking forward to working on more innovative designs in the future. I’m very lucky to be at the stage in my career where we are continuing to produce coin after coin and collectors are still driving for more – it’s very fulfilling.”
Challenges and Rewards
As a long standing member of the Perth Mint's design team, Wade shared some of the particular challenges he has faced as well as the rewards of his work.“The greatest challenge is designing an illustration to fit a circular format. Traditional designs usually fit a square or a rectangle, so designing art work for a coin is a constant task. After nine years, I have developed my craft and I can immediately judge which illustrations will work and those that won’t. Another challenge is portraying the full story and history of the coin onto such a small space.”
“It’s so rewarding to be able to design on long lasting, metal material and be a part of history. It’s a great feeling to see my initials on the coins I have designed and be assured in the knowledge that they will be passed down through different generations to come.”
China's Zhongjin Gold to issue 600 million yuan in bills
http://www.bullionstreet.com/
BEIJING(BullionStreet): China's largest
publicly-traded gold miner by market share, Zhongjin Gold announced
plans to issue 600 million yaun worth of 365-day unsecured bills on the
interbank market on May 3, sources reported.
Coupon rate will be determined in the process of book-building and the bills be issued at face value. Both value date and payment due date is May 4 and the to-be-issued bills tradable on May 7.
China Lianhe Credit Rating Co Ltd has rated the issuer AAA and A-1, respectively.
Bank of Communications has been hired as book-runner and lead underwriter for the offering, and Huaxia Bank Co Ltdwill be joint lead underwriter.
Zhongjin Gold has reported a net profit of 412 million yaun for the first quarter, 24.67% more than in the same period of last year. The company's operating revenue surged 52.31% year on year to 6.44 billion yaun in the period.
Coupon rate will be determined in the process of
book-building and the bills be issued at face value. Both value date and
payment due date is May 4 and the to-be-issued bills tradable on May 7.
Coupon rate will be determined in the process of book-building and the bills be issued at face value. Both value date and payment due date is May 4 and the to-be-issued bills tradable on May 7.
China Lianhe Credit Rating Co Ltd has rated the issuer AAA and A-1, respectively.
Bank of Communications has been hired as book-runner and lead underwriter for the offering, and Huaxia Bank Co Ltdwill be joint lead underwriter.
Zhongjin Gold has reported a net profit of 412 million yaun for the first quarter, 24.67% more than in the same period of last year. The company's operating revenue surged 52.31% year on year to 6.44 billion yaun in the period.
Gallup: America's Favorite Long-Term Investment Is Gold
http://www.moneynews.com/
Americans feel gold is the safest long-term investment out there, a Gallup survey finds.
Gold beat out four other types of investments perceived as the best long-term choice out there, with 28 percent choosing it today.
Real estate followed in second place, with 20 percent seeing it as the best long-term investment.
Savings accounts and CDs tied with stocks/mutual funds at 19 percent.
Bonds trailed at 8 percent.
"Investing in gold has gained in popularity in recent years as low interest rates have made traditional savings instruments less attractive, and instability in the stock and real estate markets has undermined the mass appeal of those options," Gallup reports.
"Meanwhile, the rising trajectory of the price of gold over the past several years apparently offers more of the returns and stability investors seek."
Gold prices are currently trading over $1,660 an ounce, down from peaking around $1,924 an ounce in late 2011 but well above $300 an ounce from just over a decade ago.
Weak gross domestic product growth figures and a sluggish jobs market are fueling talk the Federal Reserve will stimulate the economy in a way to encourage investment and hiring that weakens the dollar as a side effect.
Such a policy, officially known as quantitative easing but dubbed by critics as printing money out of thin air, would send gold's price rising.
Uncertainty in Europe also is likely to push gold higher, as calls for the European Central Bank to simulate the economy there grow as well.
European countries have adopted austerity measures such as tax hikes and spending cuts to right their debt-ridden economies, but many feel such harsh fiscal measures aren't working on their own.
"If you look at what's happening in Europe, they keep talking about austerity," says Matthew Bishop, a co-author of In Gold We Trust?, according to CNBC.
"The long way out of this is we're going to get some inflation and we're going to see gold go from being a specialist investment to being something which the public as a whole starts to buy, and that's when the price will really shoot up."
Gold beat out four other types of investments perceived as the best long-term choice out there, with 28 percent choosing it today.
Real estate followed in second place, with 20 percent seeing it as the best long-term investment.
Savings accounts and CDs tied with stocks/mutual funds at 19 percent.
Bonds trailed at 8 percent.
"Investing in gold has gained in popularity in recent years as low interest rates have made traditional savings instruments less attractive, and instability in the stock and real estate markets has undermined the mass appeal of those options," Gallup reports.
"Meanwhile, the rising trajectory of the price of gold over the past several years apparently offers more of the returns and stability investors seek."
Gold prices are currently trading over $1,660 an ounce, down from peaking around $1,924 an ounce in late 2011 but well above $300 an ounce from just over a decade ago.
Weak gross domestic product growth figures and a sluggish jobs market are fueling talk the Federal Reserve will stimulate the economy in a way to encourage investment and hiring that weakens the dollar as a side effect.
Such a policy, officially known as quantitative easing but dubbed by critics as printing money out of thin air, would send gold's price rising.
Uncertainty in Europe also is likely to push gold higher, as calls for the European Central Bank to simulate the economy there grow as well.
European countries have adopted austerity measures such as tax hikes and spending cuts to right their debt-ridden economies, but many feel such harsh fiscal measures aren't working on their own.
"If you look at what's happening in Europe, they keep talking about austerity," says Matthew Bishop, a co-author of In Gold We Trust?, according to CNBC.
"The long way out of this is we're going to get some inflation and we're going to see gold go from being a specialist investment to being something which the public as a whole starts to buy, and that's when the price will really shoot up."
為什麼富人對市場更悲觀？
如
果你是在幫別人理財﹐而不是在用自己的錢投資﹐那麼你可能更容易持看多市場的態度。儘管如此﹐最近一項研究顯示﹐富人和他們的理財顧問對市場的樂觀程度存在很大差距。嘉信理財(Charles Schwab)的一項研究表明﹐45%的理財顧問看好未來六個月的市場﹐相比之下﹐只有29%的富人（可投資資產在100萬美元或以上）看漲市場。
看跌市場的富人佔比達19%﹐持相同看法的理財顧問則僅有13%。
富人更傾向於相信未來六個月通脹水平將加劇﹐他們也更有可能相信失業率將上升、赤字將增加以及美國將經歷二次衰退。
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理財顧問對其客戶的投資目標有不同看法。他們說﹐50%的客戶尋求保本﹐另一半客戶希望資產增值。理財顧問說﹐64%的客戶希望獲得退休收入。
上述信息意味著﹐理財顧問不像他們的客戶那樣擔憂經濟或政治環境。他們也沒有意識到他們的客戶有多麼保守。
各位讀者﹐你如何看待理財顧問與客戶對市場的樂觀程度存在差距這種情況？僅僅是因為理財顧問想要向富人賣出更多理財產品嗎？
Robert Frank
2012新版加拿大硬幣變革
接連不到兩個星期, 加拿大皇家鑄幣廠宣布了兩項重要的貨幣政策.
其一, 取消一分幣/one cent的生產. 因為一分幣極少在市場上面流通,
大部分的功能只是用來找零, 大部分的民眾拿到後, 回家的動作就是投到零錢盒裡面, 鮮少再拿出來.
造成店家與民眾的存放以及使用上諸多不便,
這項計畫將持續到今年秋季, 之後會視這段時間市場對於一分幣的需求強弱而定,
倘若沒有意外的話, 加國楓葉一分銅幣極有可能就此走入歷史.
據了解, 加國生產一分幣的成本是1.5分,
取消一分幣的生產措施, 預計將會替加國省下每年11 million 加幣的成本開銷.
此舉並非全球首創, 在以10進位計數的國家中, 已有澳洲, 挪威, 瑞士與英國等國家,
開始取消以"一分單位"的個位計數.
取消過後, 一分幣仍可以在市場上流通, 但是店家販售的商品售價將跟著調整, 將一分捨去或是直接進位.
因此市場上將逐漸汰換掉一分銅幣的流通使用.
其二就是推出新版的一元銅幣與兩元的雙色幣,
新版的硬幣將比原來增加更強的防偽功能, 以削弱日益囂張的偽幣氾濫問題.
複合合金鋼的技術, 讓材料更加耐用, 防氧化, 成本更省.
以一圓幣而言, 幣面維持原本的野鴨圖騰. 新版除了原本的複合合金鋼, 也加上以楓葉為圖案的毫微雷射雕刻.
兩元雙色幣, 則維持北極熊為圖案, 齒緣凹刻字體, 毫微雷射雕刻, 以及上方的隱藏字(兩片楓葉)的設計,
幾乎用上所有目前最新的錢幣防偽技術, 堪稱為打擊偽幣集團的最佳利器. 呵呵~
其一, 取消一分幣/one cent的生產. 因為一分幣極少在市場上面流通,
大部分的功能只是用來找零, 大部分的民眾拿到後, 回家的動作就是投到零錢盒裡面, 鮮少再拿出來.
造成店家與民眾的存放以及使用上諸多不便,
這項計畫將持續到今年秋季, 之後會視這段時間市場對於一分幣的需求強弱而定,
倘若沒有意外的話, 加國楓葉一分銅幣極有可能就此走入歷史.
據了解, 加國生產一分幣的成本是1.5分,
取消一分幣的生產措施, 預計將會替加國省下每年11 million 加幣的成本開銷.
此舉並非全球首創, 在以10進位計數的國家中, 已有澳洲, 挪威, 瑞士與英國等國家,
開始取消以"一分單位"的個位計數.
取消過後, 一分幣仍可以在市場上流通, 但是店家販售的商品售價將跟著調整, 將一分捨去或是直接進位.
因此市場上將逐漸汰換掉一分銅幣的流通使用.
其二就是推出新版的一元銅幣與兩元的雙色幣,
新版的硬幣將比原來增加更強的防偽功能, 以削弱日益囂張的偽幣氾濫問題.
複合合金鋼的技術, 讓材料更加耐用, 防氧化, 成本更省.
以一圓幣而言, 幣面維持原本的野鴨圖騰. 新版除了原本的複合合金鋼, 也加上以楓葉為圖案的毫微雷射雕刻.
兩元雙色幣, 則維持北極熊為圖案, 齒緣凹刻字體, 毫微雷射雕刻, 以及上方的隱藏字(兩片楓葉)的設計,
幾乎用上所有目前最新的錢幣防偽技術, 堪稱為打擊偽幣集團的最佳利器. 呵呵~
美國已有12個州在起草使用與黃金白銀掛鉤的貨幣在緊急情況下替代美元流通的貨幣應急法案
宋鴻兵：2012年4月22日
4月19日美國密蘇里州眾院以95:37票通過了《2012年密蘇里堅挺貨幣法案》.該法案是繼猶他州之後的第二個以黃金白銀為貨幣核心的法案.該法案與猶他州的金銀貨幣提案略有不同,該州不是鼓勵用金幣銀幣進行直接流通,而是將金銀存為儲蓄,居民使用以金銀為儲蓄的借記卡的形式進行消費。參院近期將進行表決。
為防范美元劇烈貶值所造成的美國人民購買力大幅下降的風險,美國已有12個州在起草使用與黃金白銀掛鉤的貨幣在緊急情況下替代美元流通的貨幣應急法案。猶他州與密蘇里州已形成階段性成果，其它各州也在積極跟進。美聯儲如果推出QE3，將會加速各州相關法案的立法審批速度。
美國的州政府越來越關心美元問題我早已說過，美元垮_台絕不意味著美國垮_台，賴掉一切內外債後，美國仍是世界超_級_大_國，丟掉是債務鎖鏈，得到的是新的貨幣世界。美元改革遲早會啟動的。擔當，能解決一切問題；時間，能給出一切答案。
4月19日美國密蘇里州眾院以95:37票通過了《2012年密蘇里堅挺貨幣法案》.該法案是繼猶他州之後的第二個以黃金白銀為貨幣核心的法案.該法案與猶他州的金銀貨幣提案略有不同,該州不是鼓勵用金幣銀幣進行直接流通,而是將金銀存為儲蓄,居民使用以金銀為儲蓄的借記卡的形式進行消費。參院近期將進行表決。
為防范美元劇烈貶值所造成的美國人民購買力大幅下降的風險,美國已有12個州在起草使用與黃金白銀掛鉤的貨幣在緊急情況下替代美元流通的貨幣應急法案。猶他州與密蘇里州已形成階段性成果，其它各州也在積極跟進。美聯儲如果推出QE3，將會加速各州相關法案的立法審批速度。
美國的州政府越來越關心美元問題我早已說過，美元垮_台絕不意味著美國垮_台，賴掉一切內外債後，美國仍是世界超_級_大_國，丟掉是債務鎖鏈，得到的是新的貨幣世界。美元改革遲早會啟動的。擔當，能解決一切問題；時間，能給出一切答案。
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