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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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Angola, U.S. Pledge to Enforce KP Core Principles
New York: Angola and the United States have pledged to work together to enforce the core principles of the Kimberley Process (KP) to ensure that diamond revenues do not contribute to violence, but instead to peace and prosperity. Angola was the current KP chair. “The United States reaffirmed its support for Angola’s chairmanship of the Kimberley Process,” reads a joint
HK’s Jewellery Sales Dip 16.3% in Dec 2014
Hong Kong: Retail sales of jewellery, watches and clocks, and valuable gifts in Hong Kong dropped 16.3 percent in December last year to HK$9.6 billion ($1.23 billion) compared with the same period in 2013, according to the Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong. Year-on-year accumulative retail sales of this sector dipped 13.7 percent to HK$102.09 billion ($13.2 billion) from
India Reclaims Top Spot as Gold Consumer
Mumbai: India is back to being the number one consumer of gold, knocking China off the top of the podium as the country that consumed the most bullion in the form of gold bars, coins and jewelry, in 2014. The latest update of the annual study by GFMS of world gold supply and demand found that sliding demand from China
Registration for IDW Surpasses 300
Ramat Gan: Registration of foreign buyers for the upcoming winter edition of the International Diamond Week (IDW) in Israel has surpassed the 300 mark and is expected to rise well beyond 400 ahead of the opening of the five-day event on February 8, the IDW Organizing Committee announced. “We have surpassed the 300 mark and ultimately expect to welcome more
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,
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
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
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
