With December Hike Odds Intact, Can a Midterm Rally Repair Gold, Silver’s Breakdowns?

Macro Snapshot: Gold posted its best week since late August, but it got there on rate relief that had disappeared by Friday. COMEX gold rose 4.5% to $4,074.9 and silver 5.4% to $51.94 while cheaper oil pushed the odds of a December Fed hike down from about 71% on 30 October to 64% ahead of Friday’s payrolls, according to CME FedWatch readings reported by Benzinga and Reuters. The jobs data sent the odds back up to 74.8%, CNBC reported, a

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With December Hike Odds Intact, Can a Midterm Rally Repair Gold, Silver’s Breakdowns?

Macro Snapshot: Gold posted its best week since late August, but it got there on rate relief that had disappeared by Friday. COMEX gold rose 4.5% to $4,074.9 and silver 5.4% to $51.94 while cheaper oil pushed the odds of a December Fed hike down from about 71% on 30 October to 64% ahead of Friday’s payrolls, according to CME FedWatch readings reported by Benzinga and Reuters. The jobs data sent the odds back up to 74.8%, CNBC reported, a

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De Beers to Spend $3bn on Diamond Operations

Gaborone: The De Beers Group is set to invest around $3billion over the next 10 years on its diamond mining operations. Fin24 reports that the bulk of the investment would be spend on its key South African mine, Venetia in Limpopo where the underground mine was expected to extend its life beyond 2040. Venetia produced 3.2 million carats in the

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SRK is now a ‘Premier Trading House’

New Delhi: Indian company Shree Ramkrishna Exports Pvt.Ltd (SRK), which exported 348,000 carats of polished diamonds in the financial year 2014, has been recognized as a ‘Premier Trading House’ – the highest recognition given to an Export House by the Indian government. SRK, which exports to more than 40 countries worldwide, has been given the status based on the total

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De Beers Says Diamond Prices to Recover in Q2

Gaborone: De Beers said that diamond prices, which had been weak since the fourth quarter of last year, will recover from the second quarter of the year. Group chief executive Philippe Mellier was quoted by BusinessDay as saying that rough diamond prices leaped 7 percent last year. He, however, could not make any projections for 2015. “I definitely see some

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India Interested in Small Angolan Diamonds

Cape Town: A group of Indian business men are interested in Angola’s small diamonds, an official from the state diamond mining company Endiama has said. Angop news agency quoted Endiama chief executive Carlos Sumbula as saying that he met with the group during the just ended 2015 Mining Indaba in Cape Town. “The Indians are interested in small diamonds and

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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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India Proposes Gold Monetization Scheme: No Reduction in Import Duty

New Delhi: India’s Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley has once again disappointed the jewellery industry by maintaining status quo on the gold import duty which is prevailing at 10%. On the contrary he preferred to put a check on import of the yellow metal by proposing to introduce gold deposit accounts to utilize the 20,000 tons available within the country

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