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this is bay radio if you look at the
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unemployment figures that came out from
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they've just come out today we have got
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jobs lost since march and a third of
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firms are planning to lay off this
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on wednesday that's tomorrow for gdp are
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expected to show that uk is well in
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the biggest fall in gdp since world war
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is expected and these figures for job
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losses are before the government
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furloughs theme ends in october
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and then you're going to see a lot more
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and if you look at spain's figures
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and what you have to marry up is a
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that have had this uh virus and it is
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you know if you've had it
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okay horrific but against the horrific
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consequences is given for everyone we've
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got people if you look at the queues for
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in barcelona number of people that don't
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have any jobs i think in the summer
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we're in this bubble especially in our
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area because there's lots of jobs
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but once these jobs go in the winter
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unless people have managed to make
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enough money in the summer
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we are going to see a lot of problems
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and i know most councils are trying to
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to try and assist people because they
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realize how bad it's going to be
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but on the back of that if we look at
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they're rallying yeah this is what i
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would say it doesn't tell the whole
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story because um obviously you've just
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spelled out uh what's
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possibly going or probably going to
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happen but never been better in some
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indexes and indices in the states the
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stock market you know the ftse again is
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up 1.5 today it seems to travel between
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uh six one six two back down to six just
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around that and the s p is only one
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percent off it's higher but what you've
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got to think is this is artificially
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governments are propping these up
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governments are putting millions and
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into the stock markets into the equity
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markets to keep them high
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um because it helps save us it helps
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pensioners it helps them
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bond markets are flat um so if you're in
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bonds you're earning nothing
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but the what they're trying to do is get
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people to take their money and put it
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into the equity markets more people take
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they can stop their stimulus and it will
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keep itself high if they haven't
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come in and they hadn't propped you up
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the ftse would still be under 5000 and
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everything would be in the doldrums
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so the governments have worked towards
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trying to help us they do realize that
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you know that closing everything down
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maybe wasn't the best idea they should
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just put in say place certain
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um and i think people would have
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followed those if you look at heathrow
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has come out and said tens of thousands
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of jobs have been lost
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july travellers for heathrow was down by
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in july on july last year now no
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that fall in business and if you look at
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everyone is going if you look we've got
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virgin atlantic has applied for chapter
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pizza express is closing a large number
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of restaurants holiday inn
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has just announced a six month loss of
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200 million pounds the companies are
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are things like domino pizza delivery
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technology companies uh biotech
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anything to do with people um working
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or getting deliveries to their home
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amazon look how well amazon's done
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uh because obviously people were forced
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to take that route and people are now
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comfortable with that route
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and they've made it very awkward if you
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do want to go out shopping we're in mars
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sanitizers etcetera that most people are
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which isn't helping in the retail
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industry or the retail parks
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but in the uk they did see an upturn in
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in july but most of that was done online
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right so we haven't seen we are not
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seeing any sort of recovery
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to normality um what we have had is
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gold gold has gone to its highest ever
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000 over 2 000 and that's the first time
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in history that happened last week
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and that is great if you already own
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gold but most financial
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experts think it's overbought and
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there's one person who is very bull on
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gold and his name is dennis gartman
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and he says he's getting out of gold and
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he's waiting for a correction
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uh the reason gold is so uh is being
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bought is because it has a real value
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it's got an intrinsic value it's not
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like paper money they can print whenever
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and if you want to buy gold there's lots
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of things online saying click here buy
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physical gold and we will send you a
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certificate you own it be very very
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most of these are scams if you want to
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buy gold something like the royal mint
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they have bullion offers where you can
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buy gold coins you can
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sell gold also if you want to go into
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gold you could buy gold mining companies
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the values have soared
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by 116 billion so far this year
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the reason people are going into gold is
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obviously because it's a safe haven
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also because it has a tr it has an
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actual intrinsic value
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and also because government bonds uh
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their value the yields are very low
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um in so what you pay in you don't get
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um so and dividends have gone down so
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holding gold do you deal with it much um
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we do buy gold funds okay so you've got
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in gold mining companies and some people
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have come to said we want precious
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and we will go into that we don't do
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gold bullion you need to go to a
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specialist for that and i'd be very very
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careful as i said i would go something
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where they're not going to charge you
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extra on top because if you think that
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the price of the market say is 2
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000 maybe if you're going to buy a
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normal place you're going to have to pay
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100. so you're already paying on top of
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what is a very very high price
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and also if you do have physical gold
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where do you store it
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yeah i don't i was going to say i mean
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you you actually get the certificates
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saying you own this something like that
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but i'd actually want it there i'd want
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a couple of those bars in your house
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and where'd you store it did you have a
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safe bill what happens if someone finds
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out and they come and burgle you
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uh what happens if you have a fire what
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happens if you're dying you don't tell
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you anybody i had someone years and
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this must have been the last crash so
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we're talking 2007 2008.
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he said he'd bought loads of gold and
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he'd buried it in his garden and not
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is wow and i said to him right so when
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your wife is gonna have to get a
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bulldozer and bulldoze a whole garden to
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to find it and he didn't think of that
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because he was worried that someone
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might find out and might
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you know try and hurt his family um so i
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said you've got to write it down
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somewhere even lodge it with the bank
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you know make it secure so someone knows
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where this gold is he buried in the
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garden like samuel peeps burying his big
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roll of parmesan cheese
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yeah during the fire of london oh yeah
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because parmesan you know
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it was a delicacy hard to get hold of he
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buried this big wheel of cheese in the
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people digging in gardens we know it's
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either for cheese or gold
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but no i can understand people you know
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having a little bit of gold if you've
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got the money isn't a bad idea if you
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abu dhabi and dubai they've actually got
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where you can buy little ingots of gold
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for certain amounts of money
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and that would be a good idea i can't
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see it happening sort of in suburbs
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in england or in spain but if you go to
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the cities like london
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you should be on you know madrid
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barcelona even valencia you'll find
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somewhere to buy gold
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and remember you don't want to buy if
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you are going to buy it you don't want
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to pay too much above what the price is
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so before you go and buy gold check what
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the price is in the market
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and know what you're buying if you buy
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jewelry it's always marked up by about a
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so jewellery is not a good idea um same
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for but gold coins look into
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um but as i said if you buy online and
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you're offered a certificate and someone
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say look there'll be a little bit of
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gold attached most of that is a scam
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and what happens if things do go wrong
7:32
how do you get in touch with them to get
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your gold delivered to you if you want
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um so i can understand people wanting to
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hedge their bets but please be very very
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careful so i guess um
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as far as your portfolios goes again
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diversification has come into this
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oh it has and i'm happy to say touchwood
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that um our clients all of them are back
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to the levels they were um when the
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um if they've invested in a diversified
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uh market portfolio with us if they've
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invested in portfolios run by certain
8:04
um big institutions they haven't seen
8:08
yet but it's looking very very positive
8:12
and for new investors um they've made a
8:15
lot of money i had someone invested in
8:18
um in a portfolio that we've used all
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along so it hasn't been tailored just
8:21
because of the crisis because some
8:23
financial advisors have been very very
8:24
crafty and they've gone in and looked at
8:26
all the funds that have done well
8:28
through the crisis and put together a
8:30
portfolio saying this is the portfolio
8:32
you would have had and you would have
8:33
you know 60 well that's a load of border
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you should ask them to show someone's
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portfolio from a year two years ago with
8:41
to prove it because most of them haven't
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but i had someone who invested in may
8:44
he's already up twenty percent but he
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was adventurous and a balanced one
8:49
you know is up twelve percent because
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the markets have come back
8:52
and there's still a lot of potential out
8:56
and there's still a lot of undervalued
8:57
stocks if you look at uk smaller
8:59
companies they're still undervalued
9:01
there's still a lot of value in those
9:03
once we've got a bit more
9:04
news on the economy a bit more news on
9:08
companies do have cash um and they will
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invest and we'll see their shares go up
9:12
and of course it's your your business to
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keep an eye on that sort of thing
9:15
get your jeweler's eyepiece in on these
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uh on these businesses and their stuff
9:18
it is it's very difficult at the moment
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because things move so quickly but we do
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have a very good head office that does
9:23
give us help and guidance
9:25
plus we're in touch with most of the
9:28
and they give us talks on what they
9:30
think is happening with the market
9:31
we have women webinars we've been very
9:34
very busy with them giving us the views
9:35
on the market so you can formulate your
9:38
say 10 in and then you pick the bits out
9:40
of each of them that seem to marry up
9:42
and you form a a way forward from there
9:46
we've also had a lot of people coming in
9:49
quite a few few people with final salary
9:51
pensions may be wanting to
9:52
transfer them for most them we have to
9:56
because your final salary is actually
9:59
so even through this stock market crash
10:02
your pension was always guaranteed if
10:04
and you happen to move it uh when the
10:07
markets went down in march
10:09
you could and you'd be invested before
10:11
the downturn you would have lost say 30
10:14
so you have to be very very careful and
10:15
we are erring on the side of caution
10:18
with most final salary pension transfers
10:21
yes there is a good reason to transfer
10:22
as i said before and it's very very
10:24
expensive now the fca has brought in
10:26
so many rules that to get the report to
10:29
allow you to transfer
10:31
is on average about 2 000 pounds
10:34
so it's a huge amount to take if you
10:36
still want to go ahead of it
10:37
you can do as an insistent client but
10:39
what that means if you do it as an
10:41
insistent client it means you've got no
10:43
should you ever say i wasn't given the
10:45
proper advice because you've insisted on
10:48
yeah let's talk about spain because
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there was um something you wanted to
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mention yeah there's two things um
10:53
i've had lots of people i did have lots
10:55
of people call me they were brits
10:57
that were stuck here because of the
10:58
crisis and couldn't get back to the uk
11:00
and it meant that they
11:01
stayed in spain more than 183 days in
11:06
and you know they said to me what does
11:08
this mean and this was about a month
11:10
two months ago and i said well the oecd
11:12
has come out and said that most
11:14
should be fair on this and accept the
11:16
fact that people were stuck here
11:18
through no fault of their own and they
11:20
shouldn't then say that they're tax
11:23
so most countries said yes that was fine
11:25
now spain are menard and apparently
11:28
that if you did get stuck here for the
11:30
crisis and you stayed over 183 days
11:32
you are tax resident in spain um
11:36
i think people are appealing against
11:38
this there was one um
11:40
chap who appealed i think he was
11:42
lebanese and they tried to get him for
11:45
tax and he took him to court and it and
11:46
he was actually ruled against him um
11:49
he'd been here for over 183 days in 360.
11:52
and they ruled that meant he was tax
11:56
and he had to pay taxes in spain he's
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um most people hopefully
12:03
will have stayed under the radar and
12:07
the tax the tax authorities won't know
12:10
yes because it seems a bit harsh if you
12:11
couldn't but it is very very harsh you
12:13
didn't have any choice to go
12:15
and you were stuck here um but because
12:17
of that maybe you came
12:18
in i don't know last year november um
12:22
or before then and you were planning to
12:25
say march and you couldn't move out till
12:28
june or even well no flights didn't
12:30
start when don't you july yeah
12:31
so you were stuck here so be very very
12:35
and if you do get any problems go and
12:38
tax advisor and they will try and help
12:40
you but that is very worrying that
12:43
spain has um ignored the advice i guess
12:46
like the fella there i mean if he won
12:48
the appeal that would be that
12:50
case wouldn't so just be very very
12:55
and i am disappointed in spain doing
12:57
that this crisis we're all meant to come
13:00
we're all meant to help each other we're
13:01
all meant to work as one
13:03
and they are not they are penalizing
13:05
people through no fault of their own
13:07
and i think that needs to be addressed
13:09
and also in spain as we know if we're
13:12
um there is going to be a brexit at the
13:15
end of the year oh yeah remember that
13:17
yep and it looks like it's going to be
13:20
most people you need to reply for a
13:21
residencia before the 31st of december
13:25
however it's very difficult to get an
13:28
and what will happen is after that we
13:30
need a residency card which is called
13:33
a tie it's a target identi dad
13:36
the extra hero okay it contains your
13:40
information your name your
13:41
surname period of validity a unique
13:46
and a foreign identification number on
13:48
the 6th of july the spanish
13:50
government introduced the new document
13:52
for all uk nationals living
13:54
in spain who have rights under the rural
13:57
agreement to stay here
14:03
nationals legally and i have to point
14:06
living in spain so you have to have had
14:10
little residency or either the a4 or the
14:12
little credit card one
14:14
if you've been living under the radar
14:16
tough if you don't go and get that now
14:17
you will be stuffed have the right to
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uh so you have to have registered for
14:23
residency you're too late now
14:25
you have to reside for your residency
14:27
before the 6th of july
14:30
but if you've got your permanent
14:31
residency the the the whatever you want
14:33
that that serves as well you don't have
14:36
but if you need if you need it if you
14:37
need to update it you might as well get
14:39
it but it says you may exchange it for
14:40
the tie if you want there is no deadline
14:44
but authorities are recommending that
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okay um and it's saying that there's
14:50
only one place in this area you can do
14:52
it if you're in the costa blanca and
14:54
alexandria you have to get an
14:56
appointment by ella canty
15:03
and you have to go twice to do this and
15:05
the best thing to do is to get someone
15:07
now local historians local accountants
15:12
very difficult to do so what they're
15:13
suggesting is you find an immigration
15:16
who's based in alicante to do it with
15:18
you so they can assist you with getting
15:19
the appointments at the police center
15:21
and they can tell you exactly what
15:22
documents are needed because there's
15:24
several papers that you need
15:27
and first of all you will be applied if
15:28
you've been in here for less than five
15:31
you'll be issued with a temporary tie
15:33
okay which is valid for five years and
15:35
then you can apply for your permanent
15:38
if you've been here for more than five
15:39
years you will be issued with a
15:42
that is valid for 10 years and you must
15:47
tie when it expires and you must do
15:50
within a month of it expiring
15:54
before a month before up to three months
15:58
then that's it and if you move to spain
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from the first of january
16:01
2021 they will be different immigration
16:05
um it could be similar to getting your
16:07
visa that they had in place for
16:09
the russians and chinese where you have
16:10
to buy a property after us over a
16:13
and have us and it was half a million
16:15
and have a certain amount in the banks
16:17
we're not sure what that will be
16:18
so if you have got your permanent
16:20
residency and you do want to exchange it
16:23
you can do so i would wait at the moment
16:25
because it seems they're very busy
16:26
we will all have to do it in the end
16:28
we're all going to have to have the tie
16:30
at the moment there is no deadline so
16:32
please don't panic so if people say oh
16:34
you need you know it's like down
16:36
the pub or in a bar or you need your tie
16:38
if you're going to stay here
16:39
no if you have your green residencia
16:42
and it says temporary or permanent and
16:46
if you're applying for it now you may
16:49
but the deadline was the sixth of july
16:51
but i think because of what's happening
16:53
they may be extending that slightly
16:54
yeah but please if you do want to get
16:58
as hard as possible to get it before the
17:01
because as we said after that it could
17:03
be completely difficult different to get
17:05
and it could be a bit more difficult as
17:07
we know in spain they love the paperwork
17:09
yeah i finally got my driving license
17:11
through last week it was
17:12
it was supposed to have been a lot
17:13
sooner but obviously things got held up
17:16
and yeah there we go it expires 20 30. i
17:19
think well yeah boy it seems and then
17:20
you have to take another little test
17:22
don't you funny little driving i don't
17:23
know i did the little test
17:24
before ahead of that yeah where you have
17:26
to keep it it was like a video game
17:28
which i was quite good at
17:29
yeah my friend she said she was useless
17:32
but she still passed yeah
17:33
i think they just put everyone through i
17:35
don't know anyone that failed the whole
17:37
so and again if you haven't got a
17:39
spanish driver's license
17:40
and you want to be driving in spain and
17:41
you live here you need to get a spanish
17:44
i think most people are aware of that
17:46
but please do that as well
17:47
um try and get all everything in order
17:50
if we have a no deal or if there's more
17:53
negotiations going on after december
17:55
that you can legally stay here if you
17:57
want to because also what you have to
18:00
it's not going to be 183 days in 360.
18:03
going forward it's 90 days in 180 you
18:07
90 days in 180. if you stay more than
18:10
it doesn't matter if you've got
18:11
residency or not they all consider you
18:15
and what i can say is expats are an easy
18:17
target whether you're british dutch
18:20
whatever you're an easy target for the
18:22
spanish so if they find
18:24
out and it's easy to do that they can
18:25
get your bank records and they can find
18:27
out you've been to mercadona each week
18:29
you've used the cash point each week
18:31
and it's up to you not them it's up to
18:34
that you haven't been here more than 90
18:37
days in 180 you have to have
18:38
proof if they say you've been here if
18:42
it they will treat you as tax resident
18:44
but is that changing for
18:45
that's not changing for everyone else no
18:47
not if you've got residents yeah no but
18:49
just bridge because of brexit yeah but
18:51
not everyone not term dutch and no no no
18:53
this is just for britain yes exactly
18:57
you've got freedom movement with dutch
18:58
but again if you're here more than 183
19:02
you know they will consider you tax
19:03
residents in spain it doesn't matter if
19:05
you've got residency or not because
19:06
someone came to me the other day they
19:08
oh we've been here 10 years but we
19:10
haven't got our residency and we're not
19:11
tax resident and i looked to them i said
19:13
look you are resident annual tax
19:16
uh you've got a residence bank account
19:19
the bank's changed you
19:20
hacienda knows how cinder can go back
19:24
it's not like one year so if you haven't
19:26
done your tax returns and you've been
19:27
living here they can go back five years
19:29
they can claim all that back tax and
19:32
so for those of you who've been living
19:33
under the radar think you can still do
19:35
please please please think again please
19:38
try and get everything in order as much
19:39
as possible i'm not trying to scare
19:41
if you live in spain and you like living
19:43
in spain and you want to stay here
19:44
most people do everything above board
19:47
there's a few who don't
19:48
so please just take care christina brady
19:50
is in for on black tower financial
19:52
management first one back in
19:53
post lock down in the studio here um so
19:56
what are you doing work wise you still
19:57
you're pretty much out and about in at
19:59
we are actually very very busy um as i
20:02
said to you i was out seeing a client
20:04
um it was quite a long drive um usually
20:07
people come to the office which means i
20:08
can see more clients in the day but if
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and they find it difficult to come to
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the office i do go and visit them
20:14
but this one was quite a driver it took
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up more maybe about five six hours of
20:17
the day which means you can't do
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and when you're busy that is quite a
20:20
long time we've had lots of people
20:22
contacting us they've got
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cure-ops with other financial advisors
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and their tie-in period was 10 years and
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their 10 years are coming up
20:32
and they're coming to me to transfer
20:34
because maybe their portfolios haven't
20:36
they're not happy with the charges and
20:38
most of them think after 10 years their
20:39
charges have gone to zero now with this
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um the charges don't go to zero they
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carry on at the same rate
20:46
even though you've come to the end of
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your 10-year charging period
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and it's quite a high charge so i'm
20:51
working a lot on people trying to
20:54
to cheaper investments because you try
20:58
the charges as low as possible and also
21:01
most of these people have been invested
21:03
in what we would call mirror funds
21:05
internal funds which means you don't get
21:07
the same gains as if you're in market
21:10
um so they're losing out on the uh
21:13
revenue they're getting well the growth
21:14
they're getting from their funds and
21:17
dwindling their returns so we've got
21:19
lots of people coming to us as well
21:21
people coming to us from continental
21:24
pensions with them maybe their pensions
21:28
um and there's not much of a value in
21:31
and it makes sense to maybe close them
21:33
down to avoid charges
21:35
but still keeping the options going if
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there's any recompense for
21:39
miss selling or anything if any of the
21:40
court cases that going through for
21:42
continental wealth come out in their
21:44
so we're working on that as well
21:46
obviously we can only take on so many
21:47
because there's a lot of work
21:48
involved in the continental wealth stuff
21:50
but we do try to give people guidance
21:52
and point them in the right direction uh
21:55
regarding people that are being charged
21:56
too much on previous things they took
21:58
if you took it out 10 years ago it was
22:02
usual for financial advisors to earn
22:05
quite a lot of commission
22:06
in those days there wasn't so many rules
22:08
and regulations it was the same in the
22:10
financial advisors used to earn a lot in
22:12
commission since then
22:13
things have changed in the uk you've got
22:15
the non-commission route
22:17
in spain now you can pay upfront fees or
22:19
you can pay commission and commission
22:20
has come down substantially
22:22
so people are finding when they come to
22:24
the end of their five
22:25
eight ten year thing they're looking at
22:27
the charges and realizes they can get
22:29
cheaper elsewhere and if you're in that
22:30
situation or you've got an investment
22:33
please just get in touch we are here to
22:35
help you and it's just not myself there
22:37
is another seven ifas within the costa
22:40
we cover the balearics we cover the
22:42
canary islands we cover the costa del
22:44
barcelona madrid we've got offices
22:46
across spain across europe across france
22:50
gibraltar you know netherlands norway
22:54
cyprus malta so if you're any of those
22:57
countries and you do need help black
22:59
is a is a you know global organization
23:03
financially sound financially secure um
23:06
has been here for over 30 years nearly
23:07
35 years and hopefully we'll be here for
23:11
um so you've got that security behind
23:14
and you've got the knowledge that you're
23:15
not dealing with in one or two man band
23:16
and we could disappear overnight
23:18
and it kind of brexit proof as far as
23:22
yes if we do a no deal brexit at the
23:24
moment we're regulated through gibraltar
23:25
it may be difficult for gibraltar to do
23:29
so we have got another head office set
23:32
a second one in cyprus so that means we
23:36
do business within europe and we are
23:38
authorized and regulated to do business
23:40
in every country we deal in
23:43
so you have no problems whatsoever and
23:45
if you need to get in touch you can
23:47
info at black tower fm that stands for
23:51
financialmanagement.com
23:52
if you put the attention of christina it
23:55
will come straight through and i'll look
23:56
at it either deal with it myself or pass
23:58
it on to the best person
23:59
or bay radio or one word at
24:02
black tower fm stands for financial
24:05
yeah use that one so that we know people
24:07
are listening and reacting to uh
24:09
they usually do they say we heard you on
24:11
bay radio and we do keep
24:12
uh you know track of everything on our
24:14
system we have a crm system so we have
24:16
to put where the lease comes from so we
24:18
or you can always phone the office the
24:20
office is always manned that
24:27
or you can always email studio bay radio
24:30
fm and they will pass everything on or
24:33
you've got my mobile which is six five
24:36
eight nine two three three zero and we
24:40
to you within 24 hours sometimes within
24:42
a few hours it depends when your inquiry
24:45
even at weekends we try to get back to
24:47
you just to let you know we've got your
24:48
inquiry and we are looking into it
24:50
sometimes inquiries are going into spam
24:53
if you don't hear from us please email
24:56
again or look up the phone number
24:58
for the office and it's it's under costa
25:00
blanca but it covers the lyrics
25:02
um it you know we can give you any
25:04
details of any office if you get in