Online Stock Market Index Re-Introduces D-Mark

Boersennews.de, an online stock market index, based in Leipzig, has begun listing stocks also in terms of their value in deutschmarks. The index managers are saying they do not want to abandon the euro, but will "pay tribute to the rising sentiment in the population for the mark." The index has 300,000 clients, on a daily average.

Of interest in this context is also a report in Stuttgarter Zeitung, on perspectives of gold as a safe haven for investors: The article warns that rushing into gold could "prove to be a risky investment," because "should the euro crisis deepen and cause a return of the d-mark, it will affect the market value of gold. For, the new old currency would gain against the dollar. Thus, every investment denominated in dollars would abruptly lose in value.