A Surging Rupee Tripled Gold’s Global Loss in India as Silver Broke Down

Macro Snapshot: The Reserve Bank of India changed the domestic arithmetic before trading opened on 12 October. On 10 October it announced a special window to meet the entire daily dollar requirement of Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum directly from its reserves, taking a large block of import demand out of the spot market. The central bank also tightened rupee derivative rules, imposing a 20% Foreign Exchange Risk Reserve on eligible contracts above $2 million and barring the

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A Surging Rupee Tripled Gold’s Global Loss in India as Silver Broke Down

Macro Snapshot: The Reserve Bank of India changed the domestic arithmetic before trading opened on 12 October. On 10 October it announced a special window to meet the entire daily dollar requirement of Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum directly from its reserves, taking a large block of import demand out of the spot market. The central bank also tightened rupee derivative rules, imposing a 20% Foreign Exchange Risk Reserve on eligible contracts above $2 million and barring the

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Varuna D Jani’s MAMI Trophy Rises Like Pheonix

Mumbai: The 16th edition of the Mumbai film festival organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) will have a sparkling touch this year. The renowned jewellery designer and adornologist Varuna D Jani has graciously volunteered to design and craft the 15 coveted award trophies for the ongoing MAMI festival at PVR Cinemas in Andheri, Cinemax, Versova and Chandan

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Zimbabwe Diamond Conference to Discuss Challenges

Harare: The Second Zimbabwe Diamond Conference, to be held November 6-7, will feature three panel discussions featuring different aspects of the challenges facing the Zimbabwean diamond industry, as well as the wider global diamond trade. The seminar sessions will each feature experts in the area of discussion and aim to stimulate a wide-ranging debate among the African and global diamond

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Zimbabwe Govt. Demands Diamond Dividends

Harare: The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has ordered banks to deduct 15 percent special dividends from gross diamond sales, backdated to April this year in line with provisions of the 2014 Finance Act, but diamond miners have raised alarm, reports allafrica.com. The Act signed into law in April had not been enforced since yet. The diamond producers said they will

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Rio Tinto’s Q3 Diamond Production Down 15%

Perth: In its 2014 third quarter ‘production report’, Rio Tinto has declared a 15% decrease in diamond production of 3549000 carats for Q3-2014 as against 4158000 carats for the same period in 2013. All the three mines, Argyle (2455000 carats), Diavik (1004000 carats) and Murowa (90000 carats) are now in production and contributed towards Rio Tinto’s diamond total output for

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8 Diamond Companies Partner with NDC

Mumbai: The Natural Diamond Council (NDC) has announced a major partnership with eight of the world’s most influential diamantaires. For the first time since the inception of the NDC (formerly the Diamond Producers Association), a collective agreement has been reached with a significant number of major businesses in the natural diamond value chain. This strategic alliance between the NDC and

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KP Plenary Session Ends with a Positive Note

Victoria Falls: The 2023 Intersessional Meeting of the Kimberley Process concluded yesterday in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Addressing the Closing Session of the gathering, World Diamond Council President Feriel Zerouki was positive about headway having been made during the four-day event. “Decisions of the Kimberley Process are taken at Plenary Meetings, and so the goal of the Intersessional is to record

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Sir Gabriel ‘Gabi’ Tolkowsky Passes Away

Antwerp: Sir Gabriel “Gabi” Tolkowsky, one of the world’s most revered diamond cutters, has died at 84, friends and family wrote on social media on Monday. Born in Tel Aviv in 1939, Tolkowsky was from a family steeped in the diamond industry. He learned the trade from father, Jean, who had a diamond-polishing factory in Israel — an education that

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Sabyasachi Ray Appointed Member of PMAC

New Delhi: The Indian Government has announced the establishment of an independent Precious Metals Advisory Committee (PMAC) at the International Financial Services Centre Authority (IFSCA) to enhance the development of the precious metals’ ecosystem in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT-IFSC) and India’s overall gold economy. The PMAC will play a pivotal role in providing insights and recommendations on various

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