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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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Surat Diamond Sector Regains Normalcy
Surat: Due to eruption of violence by Patidar community members on last Wednesday in Surat, the Federation of Surat Textile Traders Association (FOSTTA) and the Surat Diamond Association (SDA) members, were forced to seek the help of police and the paramilitary forces. The Surat police and army personnel brought the city back to normalcy, thus helping the diamond factories and
Botswana’s Deficit May be Wider than Projected
Gaborone: Botswana’s budget deficit for fiscal 2016 may be much wider than the projected 2.6 percent due to the slowdown in the diamond market, credit rating agency Moody’s said on August 27. Earlier, Botswana’s Finance Ministry forecast a deficit of $393 million (4.03 billion pula), or 2.6 percent of its gross domestic product for the fiscal year. Diamonds account for
Alrosa Diamonds worth Millions Disappear
Moscow: Four uncut diamonds have disappeared while being held at the State Precious Metals and Gems Repository (Gokhran) for sorting, Kommersant daily newspaper reported on Thursday, citing unidentified sources in the industry. The precious stones were part of a bigger batch of diamonds submitted to Gokhran by Severalmaz mining company that extracts diamonds at a large mine in the northern
Dubai Banks Facing Major Jewelry Loan Default
Dubai: Officials of 15 banks met in Dubai on Wednesday to discuss growing concerns over the financial health of a (as yet unidentified) major jewelry chain which owes an estimated Dh550 million (US$ 150 million) to them and has allegedly defaulted on payments, banking and industry sources told Gulf News. Some banks are planning to lodge a formal complaint of
Alternate Venue for SDB Proposed
Surat: Faced with criticism and agitation by farmers and NGOs crusading for green environment in the city, diamond barons, who were lobbying with the state government for 2 lakh square metre of Navsari Agriculture University (NAU) land at Ghod Dod Road for the proposed Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB), have now decided to back off, reports The Times of India. They
$6m Diamond Goes Missing
Windhoek: Police in Namibia are hunting for a 78-carat diamond after the gem went missing during a recent strike by 1,500 workers of the Namibia Diamond Trading Company. NDTC, like the mining firm Namdeb, is a 50-50 joint venture between Anglo American’s De Beers unit and the Namibian government with a history dating back to the 1920s. Bloomberg reports the
BDB Planning International Diamond Week
Mumbai: India’s Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) is planning an International Diamond Week in 2015, Mr. Anoop Mehta, President of the BDB has said in an interview with Rapaport. Stressing about the BDB’s future plans, Mr. Mehta said, “We are planning an International Diamond Week, which will take place in the bourse sometime in early 2015. It will have about 300
Mugabe Seeks Polishing Partnership with China
Harare: President Robert Mugabe said Zimbabwe intended to partner a Chinese company, Chow Tai Fook, to process local diamonds to add value. At the moment, the country exports its diamonds, mainly mined in Marange, in raw form. Beneficiation of natural resources, especially minerals, forms the centre piece of Zimbabwe’s new five-year economic blueprint, the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio Economic
