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What You Need to Know About Gold's Long-Term Bull Market
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Gold began a powerful uptrend in the early-2000s and is still in that same uptrend despite the stagnation of the past few years. The factors that originally drove gold's uptrend are still in effect and, in many cases, are accelerating. Over the next decade and beyond, we are going to see a staggering increase in debt and the money supply, which will result in terrible inflation and,... Continue Reading 
BullionStar Financials FY 2023 – Year in Review
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This post reviews BullionStar’s financial performance and milestones for the financial year ending 30 June 2023 (FY 2023). FY 2023, from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023, marked yet another robust year for BullionStar, as we saw sales revenues reaching SGD 396.4 million. The sales revenue for FY2023 was marginally higher (1.2%) compared to FY 2022. In this blog post, we provide detailed... Continue Reading
Year of the Dragon: Surge in Singapore's Gold & Silver Sales
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As we embrace the Chinese New Year of 2024, the Year of the Dragon stands as a beacon of power, wisdom, and success. At BullionStar, the Dragon's influence is evident in the remarkable surge of sales in Dragon-themed gold and silver bullion, underscoring the deep-rooted cultural significance of the Dragon.
In this blog, we delve into the unique offerings and opportunities the... Continue Reading
The Royal Mint's Growing Interest in Singapore
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The Royal Mint, which is the United Kingdom’s official government mint, is taking a growing interest in Singapore and Southeast Asia’s bullion market and is expanding its presence and product offerings in the gold and silver-hungry region. With an illustrious history going all the way back to 886 AD, The Royal Mint is one of … Continue Reading
Infographic: U.S. Government & Banks in the Gold Market
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Given shocking irregularities in the auditing of the US Gold Reserve, the successful prosecution of Wall Street banks for precious metals price manipulation, coupled with the multi-year gold price capping during COMEX New York trading hours, and the blatant interventions applauded by the Plunge Protection Team, it is clear to see that the US Government and Wall Street work hand in glove... Continue Reading
First Ever Filming of Singapore's Super-Secret Gold Reserves
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After being the largest central bank gold buyer in Q1 2023, and one of the largest central bank buyers so far this year, Singapore’s central bank (MAS) is not resting on its laurels, and has made the news again, this time allowing a camera crew into its gold vault in Singapore.
This is the first time ever that the gold reserves of Singapore’s central bank have been filmed.... Continue Reading
Buy & Store Precious Metals in the United States
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BullionStar has now launched in the US and is offering customers one year of storage free in our secure precious metals vault in Texas.
With a BullionStar account, you have full 24/7 control over your vaulted bullion, you can buy and sell gold and silver bars and coins for storage, sell or withdraw your stored bullion, audit your stored bullion and much more.
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American Gold Eagles: The Most Popular U.S. Gold Bullion Coin
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The US Mint’s American Gold Eagle bullion coin is the most popular gold coin in the United States and is instantly recognizable around the world.
Since its launch in 1986, nearly 47 million bullion Gold Eagles have been minted across the coin’s four sizes, containing a massive 26.8 million troy ounces of gold. That’s 830 tonnes of gold held in Gold Eagle coins! This makes... Continue Reading
BullionStar Launches in the United States
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As one of the world’s most innovative bullion dealers, BullionStar is proud to announce that we have now launched in the United States with a dedicated US operation, and a new US website BullionStar.us.
At BullionStar.us, you can now buy physical precious metals coins and bars for free delivery across the United States, or for 1-year FREE vault storage in our secure precious... Continue Reading
Important BullionStar Update: 11 March 2022
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Amid heightened geo-political and financial market risk, BullionStar is currently seeing extremely high demand for its precious metals products and limited availability in some bullion products.
Our average order size in March has increased by 343% so far compared to February, and we are seeing a larger percentage of orders originating from international customers.... Continue Reading
Infographic: Paper Silver vs. Physical Silver
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The international silver price is derived from gigantic trading volumes of ‘paper silver’ in London and New York which have little connection to real physical silver inventories or annual silver supply.
It is therefore crucial for investors to understand the differences between physical silver and paper silver and to grasp that one is real ownership of tangible silver while... Continue Reading
#SilverSqueeze: Physical Silver Shortage vs. Paper Silver
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The silver short squeeze in physical silver currently underway is unprecedented. Even so, the spot spot price of paper silver does not anywhere near reflect the real physical equilibrium price of silver. BullionStar may therefore in the near future have no option but to abandon setting prices based on silver spot price altogether and move to fixed prices. Continue Reading
BullionStar Provides Food Relief to Over 200 Families
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In August 2020, BullionStar helped to provide food and groceries to over 200 poverty-stricken families living in Batam, Indonesia. Most of these families do not have a breadwinner that holds a steady job. With COVID-19 restrictions, already tough living conditions have sadly deterioated further. Continue Reading
Bullion Retail Shop Re-Opening 19 June 2020
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BullionStar's Retail Shop at 45 New Bridge Road will re-open 19 June with normal operating hours.
Feel free to place your order online now at www.bullionstar.com and lock in the price. Collect your order from 19 June. For orders with cash payment, cheque payment, card and NETS payment, you are allowed to place your order now and make payment for your order no later than 22 June. Continue Reading
Interview With SG Wealth Builder: Gold at 8 Year High
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BullionStar’s precious metals analyst, Ronan Manly, was recently interviewed by Singapore-based financial and investing website SG Wealth Builder. Here, we reprint the questions and answers from that interview.
The wide-ranging discussion covers the recent behaviour of the US dollar gold price and how the price discovery process works, the supply disruptions of March and... Continue Reading
Bullion Center Information
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Update on BullionStar's services. Bullion Center may not open 2 June after all. We are open for online orders at BullionStar.com 24/7! We offer FREE shipping for orders within Singapore and discounted rates for international shipping. Vault storage orders are processed as per normal. We are also accepting customer sell orders. Click here for more information and a service update. Continue Reading
BullionStar's 'QE Defender' Browser-Based Video Game
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Helicopter cash - Negative interest rates - Government and Central Bank Asset Purchases - Universal Basic Income. Central banks and governments across the globe have unleashed a series of monetary and fiscal interventions on markets and economies which are unprecedented in their magnitude and which are boarding on the destruction of the current financial system. Are we gearing up for a... Continue Reading
We Are Open For Orders – Update of Services: 20 May 2020
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We are open for orders! Place your order on BullionStar.com 24/7! BullionStar has been exempted from the circuit breaker suspension as an essential service company for e-commerce orders. This means that orders can be shipped for delivery (FREE within Singapore or Discounted for International Shipping) or processed into vault storage as per normal. We are also accepting customer sell... Continue Reading
We Are Open For Orders – Update of Services: 11 April 2020
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We are open! This is an important update to all BullionStar customers covering the impact of COVID-19 on BullionStar's operations. BullionStar is open for orders but operate in limited capacity as an essential business with measurements taken against the spread of COVID-19. Continue Reading
Important BullionStar Update: 27 March 2020
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This is an important update to all BullionStar customers covering the situation in the precious metals market. As one of few precious metals dealers globally, BullionStar still accepts orders and has plenty of bullion in stock for immediate delivery. Due to record demand, we have however had to temporarily increase our minimum order for both customer buy and customer sell orders to SGD... Continue Reading
The Window to Buy Gold & Silver With Paper Money is Closing
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In the current environment, we are continuing to witness overwhelming demand for physical precious metals, while at the same time scarce supply due to global bullion supply chain issues.
Price discovery for precious metals is now broken, with paper spot and futures precious metals markets not reflecting physical metal demand and supply. This price disconnect is... Continue Reading
Gold Shortages – Price of Physical Gold Decouples from Paper Gold
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With volatility and turmoil continuing to impact global financial markets, we are witnessing a huge increase in demand for physical precious metals amid record orders and customer visits.
The surge in demand has created supply chain constraints, with some of BullionStar’s suppliers completely out of stock.
As the gold price on COMEX is not reflecting this physical... Continue Reading
Infographic: Central Bank Gold Buying & Gold Repatriation
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Annual central bank gold demand is currently running at a 50-year high. A whole host of central banks have also recently repatriated gold from London and New York.
But why are central banks buying more gold bars than at any time since 1971? And what has spooked sovereign nations to fly their gold back to their home countries?
With this easy to grasp and visually... Continue Reading
Why You Should Buy & Store Gold & Silver in New Zealand
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With the addition of a bullion storage offering in New Zealand, BullionStar customers can now diversify bullion storage internationally across New Zealand and Singapore, two of the safest and securest precious metals storage jurisdictions in the world.
Geographically located in one of the safest areas of the world, in a stable jurisdiction with strong property rights and a... Continue Reading
Gold, Silver, and Platinum Surge Ahead
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Year-to-date (YTD), based on prices at the time of writing, precious metals prices in US dollar terms have been making impressive double digit returns. The gold price has now risen 20.73% YTD, the silver price is up 25.91%, and the spot platinum price is 22.25% higher.
Much of these returns have been generated since early June, when first the US dollar gold price and then the... Continue Reading
Singapore Rated the World’s Safest & Most Secure Nation
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Singapore is perceived to be one of the safest countries in the world with a strong rule of law and a dynamic and liberal economy.
While this is true, it is encouraging to see that these are not mere anecdotal stories or claims, they are facts borne out by the myriad of global rankings which year after year rank Singapore as the safest countries in the world and the one of the... Continue Reading
The History of the World is a History of Gold
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Gold has been inextricably linked to human civilizations since at least 6000 BC. Gold has been used as money in countless civilizations for thousands of years. From the ancient Egyptians to the Roman Empire, from the Republic of Venice to the Spanish Empire, civilizations may rise and fall but the one constant they all had was gold.
A people without the knowledge of their past... Continue Reading
How Governments’ War On Gold Leads to Smuggling
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On a nearly daily basis, the media across Asia covers cases of gold smuggling into countries such as India and Japan. On the surface this smuggling is undertaken to avoid government imposed frictions such as import or consumption taxes, which distort the local gold price.
But at a higher level gold smuggling is a symptom of a problem. And that problem is that these governments... Continue Reading
What is Money?
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For something used by nearly everyone on the planet on a daily basis, the subjects of money and currency are surprisingly little understood and shrouded in mystery. But perhaps that’s the way governments and their central banks like it.
From a time in which only gold and silver were considered money, to a contemporary banking system where debt is created out of thin air and... Continue Reading
The Advantages of a BullionStar Cash & Bullion Account
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As one of the innovative features BullionStar offers in bringing modern technology to the age old bullion sector, with a BullionStar account you can hold both bullion and cash on one and the same account.
Keeping funds on your BullionStar account allows you to save on costly bank fees, speed up your precious metals transactions, trade or average in and out of positions, and... Continue Reading
London’s Annual Platinum Week: A Showcase For Platinum
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Each year during May, the great and the good of the global platinum market come together in London for a series of seminars and events known as “Platinum Week” organized by the London Platinum and Palladium Market (LPPM).
Participants comprise the heads of platinum mining companies, refineries and mints as well as attendees from the auto industry, industrial companies,... Continue Reading
Holding Precious Metals in Your IRA Retirement Account
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In the US, an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) is a tax-incentivized account structure designed to save for retirement. IRAs can be opened by any US resident with taxable income. A self-directed IRA is a version of the IRA structure that allows investment into a wide selection of assets.
Under IRS rules, a wide range of investment grade precious metals can be held within... Continue Reading
BullionStar Financials FY 2018 – Year in Review
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As one of the world’s most innovative bullion dealers, BullionStar is also committed to transparency which extends to BullionStar’s annual financial results, which we publish on our website every year in the form of a commentary with supporting graphics.
For the financial year to 30 June 2018 (FY2018), BullionStar grew total revenues to SGD 177.8 million. Sales of gold bars... Continue Reading
How Much Gold is in the FIFA World Cup Trophy?
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A sporting trophy revered by the elite footballers of the world. A trophy with near mythical status in the eyes of players and fans alike. A trophy held aloft by a select few captains in its less than 50 year history. A legendary trophy made of gold.
Designed in 1970 by Italian Artist artist Silvio Gazzaniga, the FIFA World Cup Trophy is, in the words of its creator, "a... Continue Reading
Cashless Society, Negative Rates, and Hyperinflation – Pt. 2
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Imagine a country in which banks hold virtually no cash at all. A country where if you walk into a bank branch, the clerk won’t be able to help you make a deposit. A country where there’s a good chance that if you grabbed a wad of cash and walked into an electronics store or a major nightclub, they wouldn’t be able to assist you in buying a new computer, nor get your drink on.... Continue Reading
Investing in Platinum - the Noble Metal
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As a recognized investment precious metal, many of the world's leading refineries and mints now offer investment grade platinum bars and platinum coins within their physical precious metals product suites.
These include minted platinum bars from the famed refineries of Heraeus, Valcambi and Argor-Heraeus, and platinum bullion coins such as Royal Canadian Mint Platinum 1 oz... Continue Reading
BullionStar Celebrates Customer Order Number 100,000!
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Since it's establishment in 2012 in Singpore, BullionStar has had many notable achievements, and recently reached another milestone by completing its 100,000th customer order, awarding a PAMP gold bar to the lucky customer who placed this order.
With customers from over 100 countries worldwide for both precious metals purchases and secure precious metals storage, BullionStar is... Continue Reading
BullionStar Adds Bitcoin Cash & Litecoin as Payment Options
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Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin have now been added to the list of transactional currencies which can be used to purchase gold bullion and silver bullion at BullionStar.
Since May 2014 BullionStar has accepted Bitcoin as a payment option and was one of the first bullion dealers worldwide to do so. Now with the addition of Bitcoin Cash, BullionStar again innovates and customers can... Continue Reading
BullionStar Wins 1st Place in Bullion Directory’s 2018 Awards
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BullionStar has won a Bullion Dealer of the Year award in the 2018 “Bullion Directory” Awards. Bullion Directory is a global online directory of the world’s precious metals dealers, listing over one thousand bullion dealers globally, and its awards are decided by the voting public.
With competition from across the world, BullionStar secured first place in the ‘Rest of... Continue Reading
The Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin
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With the recent emergence and recognition of a diverse range of crypto currencies, the technology of blockchain is rapidly gaining traction as a profound innovation that has potential to alter entire industries.
Described in quite simple terms in the white paper that laid the foundations for Bitcoin, the design principles behind blockchains are now also being used in newer... Continue Reading
The Celebration of Chinese New Year
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New Year and the Spring Festival are a central part of Chinese tradition in mainland China and in Chinese communities all across the world. Chinese New Year is a movable event which this year falls on 16 February and which ushers in the “Year of the Dog”, the 11th year in the Chinese Zodiac calendar.
Chinese New Year is an auspicious time associated with many customs and... Continue Reading
The Role of Gold as Turmoil Hits Financial Markets
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With continued selloffs this week led by US stock markets, and now moving into Asian markets, the complacency that had set in in financial markets has come to an abrupt halt as volatility reappears. Aside from the equity bourses, the emerging cryptocurrency markets have also suffered a multi-week selloff which has left investors unclear as to what lies ahead.
In such market... Continue Reading
Your Weight in Gold
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There are many phrases and sayings in the English language that illustrate the high-regard with which societies hold for gold. These phrases are embedded into natural language and have evolved over time based on an intrinsic appreciation by civilizations that gold is rare and of high value.
One example is the saying “worth your weight in gold”. Although a metaphor, what... Continue Reading
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