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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Chinese Banks to Have Bigger Say in Gold Pricing

London: The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) has announced that come March, a new electronic daily gold price will go live in China that will replace the traditional London gold fixing. The LBMA, for the first time, has three Chinese banks as ordinary members: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd, China Construction Bank Corp and Bank of China Ltd.

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IIDGR Set for Indian Roadshow

Mumbai: The De Beers Group of Companies today announced that its International Institute of Diamond Grading & Research (IIDGR) business is running synthetic detection symposiums around India to demonstrate its technology to all elements of the Indian diamond community. The IIDGR team, led by the Institute’s Commercial Director, Jamie Clark, are at the Bharat Diamond Bourse in Mumbai on 16th

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Foundation Stone of Surat ‘DREAM City’ Laid

Surat: Gujarat chief minister, Anandiben Patel on Sunday laid foundation stone for Diamond Research and Mercantile (DREAM) City to be spread over an area of about 2,000 acres in Khajod area situated on the outskirts of the city. Diamond city Surat will house Gujarat’s third smart city after GIFT City, near Gandhinagar, and Dholera, near Ahmedabad taking forward the Prime

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Online Sales to Surge 40% for Valentine's Week

Mumbai: ASSOCHAM forecast that Valentine’s week online sales in India will jump 40 percent year on year to $3.53 billion (INR 220 billion) as consumers have increased spending power and they strive to celebrate the festival with gifts of jewelry, flowers and electronics. The week has already begun with Rose Day on February 7, followed by Proposal Day on February

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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

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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

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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

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Rio Tinto showcases “Oculus Rift” technology

Las Vegas: Rio Tinto Diamonds is bringing the mine to the marketplace by using innovative Oculus Rift technology to provide an interactive virtual journey into its Diavik Diamond Mine in the remote Northwest Territories of Canada. The Oculus Rift will debut at the Rio Tinto booth at the world’s largest diamond jewellery trade show, the JCK Luxury Show, in Las

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