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For journalists, editors and researchers: who can comment for a story, the figures you may quote and how to credit them, our company facts, logo files and how to reach us.
Comment for your story
Comment comes from our Editor in Chief, Sasaenia Omilabu, FCCA, MBA (Commodity Trading), a Fellow of the ACCA with an MBA in Commodity Trading and degrees in accountancy and economics. He answers in writing, with the figure, its date and the page it comes from.
Editor in ChiefSasaenia Omilabu, FCCAFellow of the ACCA, MBA in Commodity Trading, MSc Professional Accountancy, BSc Economics. Reads and reviews everything we publish.
Subjects we comment on
Gold and precious metals
What gold costs in each country’s own money, how much of a move came from the currency, local retail premiums, karats and jewellery pricing.
Currencies and exchange rates
Why a currency moved, central banks’ reference rates, the gap between official and parallel rates, and what it costs to send money abroad.
Oil, gas and energy markets
Crude oil and what moves its price, refined products such as petrol, diesel, jet fuel and LPG, refining margins, and oil supply, shipping and trading.
Physical commodity trading
How physical trades are structured, world trade flows, freight and shipping, contracts and disputes, agricultural markets, and Geneva as a trading hub.
Hedging and derivatives
Futures, swaps and options used to hedge, price and position risk for traders, how corporate hedging goes wrong, and counterparty and credit risk.
Trade and commodity finance
Letters of credit and other bank instruments, how banks finance trading houses, and what happens when they pull back.
Risk management
Country risk, credit and political risk insurance, frontier and emerging markets, middle-office controls in trading firms and operational risk.
Nigeria and African economies
The naira and foreign exchange policy, fuel subsidy removal and petrol pricing, inflation, the budget and taxes, the power sector, and investing in frontier markets.
Economics and central banks
Monetary and fiscal policy, inflation, interest rates and unemployment, recession and stagflation, and how businesses get through them.
Online trading and brokers
How forex and CFD trading works, spreads, swaps, leverage and margin, fundamental and technical analysis, copy and funded trading, and how brokers and partner programmes are run.
Trading scams and payments
How impersonation scams work, how to check a broker, identity and anti-money-laundering checks, and payments in emerging markets, cryptocurrencies included.
Corporate finance and accounting
Budgeting and variance analysis, performance reporting, reading company accounts, cost control, accounting standards, and finance in energy and consumer goods companies.
Governance, audit and compliance
How boards work, internal controls and internal audit, fraud detection and investigation, and compliance and sanctions in commodity trading.
Strategy, mergers and leadership
Corporate strategy and business planning, how companies choose acquisition targets and why mergers fail, partnerships and joint ventures, change management and building teams.
Sustainability
Sustainability as a competitive advantage, how to assess a company’s progress, and the pressure on commodity traders and energy companies.
Research and market intelligence
Business research methods, market and competitive intelligence, and how to read market research and economic data.
Marketing in financial services
Digital marketing for financial firms and online brokers, and personal branding for finance professionals.
Careers in finance
Becoming a chartered accountant, moving from accounting into trading and risk, studying for a master’s degree while working, and African professionals in Swiss and European finance.
Figures you may quote
The figures on our markets hub and in the monthly gold reports may be quoted and charted with a link to the page they came from.
Monthly gold report
Gold in local currencies for each month: the change in every country, how much of it came from the currency, a data file and a suggested citation.
Gold price by country
Today’s price per gram, ounce, tola and other local units in each country’s own money, with its history.
What our traders are buying
The markets our clients hold most and the share of positions buying each one, updated every week.
Exchange rates
Rates for every currency pair, with daily reference rate history.
Interest rates
Central bank policy rates and when each bank decides next.
Free rates and gold price API
Quotes, exchange rates and gold prices by country as JSON files, free to use with a link back.
Widgets for your pages
Live gold prices, currency converters, rates tables and ticker tapes to place in an article.
Methodology
Where each figure comes from and how it is worked out.
How to credit a figure
Name Crystal Ball Markets as the source and link to the page the figure came from. Each monthly gold report carries its own citation, in this form:
Crystal Ball Markets, “Gold prices in local currencies: [month and year]”, [the report’s address]
Where our page credits a figure to another publisher, such as a central bank or a jewellers’ association, credit that publisher.
The monthly gold report by email
Each month’s report goes to news desks in its first working days. The email opens with the desk’s own country: the gold price in its currency, the change over the month and how much of it came from the currency.
To receive it, or to stop it, write to sasaenia.omilabu@crystalballmarkets.com with Press at the start of the subject.
Company facts
| Name | Crystal Ball Markets |
|---|---|
| Open to the public since | January 2020 |
| What we do | Online trading of over-the-counter (OTC) leveraged CFDs on currencies, metals, energy, agricultural commodities, indices, shares and cryptocurrencies, plus digital options, on our Crystal Ball Markets MT7 platform. |
| What we publish | Live prices, gold prices by country, calculators, guides and daily market notes on our markets hub, a blog, a podcast and a trading academy, in 38 languages. |
| Registration | Crystal Ball Markets has satisfied the legal requirements for registration and is a Foreign Money Services Business (FMSB) in regulatory compliance with FINTRAC Canada for Foreign Exchange Dealing and Dealing in Virtual Currencies (MSB number: N300001956). |
| Operator | The website is operated by CBM BUSINESS DEVELOPERS LTD (1805466). Crystal Ball Markets is profiled by Dun & Bradstreet, D-U-N-S number 817053117. |
| Editor in Chief | Sasaenia Omilabu, FCCA, MBA (Commodity Trading) |
| Editorial standards | Editorial policy and corrections |
Logo and photo
For use beside a story that names or quotes us. Please use the logo as it is drawn.
Press contact
Write or call
- Email: sasaenia.omilabu@crystalballmarkets.com, with Press at the start of the subject
- Phone: +44 1244 94 1257
- LinkedIn: Sasaenia Omilabu
Give your deadline in the first line, and the country or market your story is about.
Found an error?
Write to the same address with the page and the figure. What we correct is listed on our corrections page.
Our official sites, apps and profiles are listed on the fraud and scam awareness page.
Questions from journalists
May I quote your figures?
Yes. The figures on our markets hub and in the monthly gold reports may be quoted and charted with a link to the page they came from.
Who can comment for a story?
Our Editor in Chief, Sasaenia Omilabu, FCCA, MBA (Commodity Trading). Write to sasaenia.omilabu@crystalballmarkets.com with Press at the start of the subject, and give your deadline in the first line.
How should I credit a figure?
Name Crystal Ball Markets as the source and link to the page the figure came from. Where our page credits a figure to another publisher, such as a central bank or a jewellers’ association, credit that publisher.
Can my newsroom receive the monthly gold report?
Yes. Each month’s report goes by email to news desks in its first working days, opening with the desk’s own country. Write to sasaenia.omilabu@crystalballmarkets.com with Press at the start of the subject to be added, or to stop it.
