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Despite Collapsing Hike Odds, Rising Yields Kept Indian Gold, Silver Below Their Floors
Snap Shot: Most of the damage in the week ending 2 October landed before the good news arrived, and the good news then failed to repair it. August core PCE inflation, released on 30 September, rose 3.0% from a year earlier against expectations of 3.3%, helped partly by methodology changes at the Bureau of Economic Analysis. September payrolls on 2 October then added just 29,000 jobs against forecasts near 90,000, with unemployment at 4.2% and August revised down to 133,000

Despite Collapsing Hike Odds, Rising Yields Kept Indian Gold, Silver Below Their Floors
Snap Shot: Most of the damage in the week ending 2 October landed before the good news arrived, and the good news then failed to repair it. August core PCE inflation, released on 30 September, rose 3.0% from a year earlier against expectations of 3.3%, helped partly by methodology changes at the Bureau of Economic Analysis. September payrolls on 2 October then added just 29,000 jobs against forecasts near 90,000, with unemployment at 4.2% and August revised down to 133,000
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GJEPC to Organize India Pavilion at Vicenzaoro Fall
Mumbai: The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) will be hosting 15 Indian diamond, coloured gemstone and jewellery manufacturers at the India Pavilion at Vicenzaoro Fall 2015 which is being held in Vicenza, Italy from Sept 5-9, 2015. The Pavilion is spread over Hall 3 and Hall 3.1. GJEPC will also be hosting a lounge-cum-booth at the event which

Alrosa May Cut Diamond Prices Again
Moscow: Russian diamond miner Alrosa said clients cancelled half of the orders placed at trading session in July and it was considering a second price cut of the year because of slack demand. The state monopoly’s Chief Financial Officer Igor Kulichik said on Tuesday Alrosa was stockpiling an increased quantity of the gems rather than curb production. “Cutting production leads

Summer Edition of IDW Kicks Off
Ramat Gan: The Summer Edition of the International Diamond Week in Israel (IDWI) kicked off on Sunday, August 30, with some 400 buyers attending. During the five-day event, the buyers and hundreds members of the Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) will be frequenting the trading tables of some 300 Israeli, Belgian, American and Indian companies that are displaying polished diamonds in

GIA to Open Diamond Synthesis Center
Ramat Gan: Speaking at the International Diamond Week in Ramat Gan, Tom Moses, GIA executive vice president, announced that the lab is planning to open a diamond synthesis facility in New Jersey. The facility, which the lab hopes will be operational by January, is planned as a research laboratory where GIA gemologists will be able to investigate different treatments that

Demand for Indian Gold Jewellery to Rise
Mumbai: India’s gems and jewellery exporters are set to shine brighter than domestic retailers. Positive signs from export destinations such as higher disposable income and consumer spending as well as improvements in consumer confidence is set to support export volumes of gems and jewellery, maintain analysts. An economic recovery is also set to benefit exporters, reports Mineweb.com. Indian exporters are

IGI Becomes Premier Affiliate Sponsor of NCDIA
New York: The International Gemological Institute (IGI) has joined the Natural Color Diamond Association (NCDIA) as its first premier affiliate member. With an aim to educate consumers and increase global demand and desire for natural color diamonds, NCDIA is a not-for-profit, membership-based organization. Beyond the record-breaking blue and orange diamonds sold recently at auctions, the association has been working to

ADB to Participate in Int’l Diamond Week
Ramat Gan: The Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) announced that a delegation of the Antwerp Diamond Bourse (Beurs voor Diamanthandel) will join colleagues from the Diamond Dealers Club of New York to take part in the International Diamond Week at the Israel Diamond Exchange, from Monday, September 1 to Thursday, September 4. “We’re very pleased that the Antwerp Diamond Bourse will

EGL International Clarifies…
Ramat Gan: EGL International Managing Partner and CEO Guy D. Benhamou has categorically refuted claims made on a regional television station in the United States that EGL’s grading standards were lower than those of its competitors. He added that it was untrue that EGL had been contacted for comment on the case by the TV station as claimed in an
