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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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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Zim has Info on Diamonds Hidden By De Beers

Harare: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said his government has managed to obtain information on the diamond sector that had been hidden by De Beers. Speaking in a wide-ranging interview with the state broadcaster, Mugabe who recently turned 91, said “clever people” had stolen the papers and gave them to Harare. “We know of diamonds that had been discovered by De

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Gold Scheme Can Fetch Rs. 1 Lakh Crore: SBI

Mumbai: Describing the proposed gold deposit scheme as “game changer”, the SBI’s economic research department has said it will help attract at least Rs. 1 lakh crore in deposits on the precious metal, reports The Economic Times. The proposed introduction of a gold deposit scheme is a big positive and conservative estimates show that the monetary value of gold deposits

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Gemfields’ Auction Totals $14.5 Million

London: Gemfields’ latest auction of emerald and beryl has raised $14.5 million. The gemstone miner announced that the average price realized in the auction of stones from Kagem was $3.72 per carat, which it says was a new record for lower quality auctions. Of the 10.1 million carats that were offered for sale in Lusaka, 3.9 million carats were sold

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Industry Disappointed with India's Budget

Mumbai: Mailbox of the gems2jewellery.com has been flooded with reactions of trade bodies and industry leaders expressing their ‘unhappiness’ over the latest budgetary proposals made by the Union Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley. Here we produce them under one compiled news item: Mr. Vipul Shah, Chairman of the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) says: Our congratulations to the

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Grib Diamonds NV to Auction First Production in Antwerp

Antwerp: Grib Diamonds NV, a 100% owned subsidiary of OAO LUKOIL, announced that on September 23, 2014, it will hold a first auction of rough diamonds from the diamond mine named after V. Grib in Arkhangelsk region (Russian Federation), according to a press release issued by the Company. Grib Diamonds will hold diamond viewings from September 15, 2014, in Antwerp,

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Air India Conducts Survey in Surat

Surat: The Air India (AI) has started a fresh survey to assess passenger traffic potential from Surat towards Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore, reports The Times Of India. A team of AI officials led by general manager Mukesh Bhatia was in the city to meet members of trade and commerce, Surat Diamond Association (SDA), Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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Zimbabwe Eyes Domestic Diamond Exchange

Harare: Government will auction local diamonds once or twice in Antwerp, Belgium, before testing waters on its own planned domestic exchange in November this year. Mines and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa said in an interview that Government was working on modalities of the domestic diamond exchange. “We are preparing for the (domestic) auction in November. We will do one

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Mandatory Marking for Synthetics Proposed

Moscow: ALROSA proposed to introduce mandatory marking for synthetic diamonds, Vladlen Nogovitsin, Head of the miner’s Customer Policy, told Interfax in his interview. The company’s initiatives to regulate the turnover of “synthetics” are being discussed in the framework of an expert group under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. “We stand for defining the concept of synthetic diamonds

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