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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Stable Trade Figures for Antwerp Diamond Sector

Antwerp: The trade figures of the Antwerp diamond sector for the month of September remained stable. Both the import and export figures of rough diamonds hover around the same values. This was less so the case for polished diamonds, but more expensive goods were being traded compared to the first nine months of last year. Following a traditionally slower month

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PNG Devotes itself to Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

Mumbai: Going by the words of Hon. Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi “India can do it. People of India can do it” the young and enthusiastic team of P. N. Gadgil Jewellers moved on to streets and worked towards a clean India as part of Swacchh Bharat Abhiyan, a national level campaign by Government of India. Having 12 stores

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India Planning Diamond Hub in Mumbai

New Delhi: The government is discussing a plan to set up a special zone with tax benefits for diamond import and trading in Mumbai, to try and develop the country’s financial capital as a rival to Antwerp and Dubai, which are currently trading hubs for the precious stone, reports The Times of India. Commerce & industry minister Nirmala Sitharaman held

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Reports about Diamond Discount Baseless: GJEPC

Mumbai: The GJEPC issued a strong rebuttal of media reports that Indian diamond companies were offering discounts of between 5 % to 20% as a fall-out of the closure of the Antwerp Diamond Bank (ADB) saying that the reports were “not only false but also baseless with news being reported without substantial understanding of the functionary guidelines of bank’s trade

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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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GJC Making India a Jewellery Tourism HUB

Mumbai: All India Gem and Jewellery Domestic Council (GJC), the apex trade body that unites manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and exporters, announced today that it is organising the India Jewellery Shopping Festival (IJSF), the first its kind in the world, to uplift the business scenario across the industry. IDT Gemmological Laboratories Worldwide is the Title sponsor and Divine Solitaires is the

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Registrations Open for CIBJO Congress

Jaipur: CIBJO’s 2023 annual congress will take place in in Jaipur, in the Indian State of Rajasthan, from October 3 to October 5. Pre-congress meetings will be held on October 1 and 2. The hosts of the congress is the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) and the co-host is the National Gem & Jewellery Council of India (NGJCI).

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