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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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IDE to Advance "Natural is Real" During IDW
Ramat Gan: The Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) will be advancing its “Natural Is real” campaign during the Israel Diamond Week in New York to be held next month at the Diamond Dealers Club of New York (DDC). The campaign, which was launched during last year’s Israel Diamond Week in New York, stresses the Israeli diamond industry and trade’s commitment to

UK-Ireland Jewellery Industry Unite Over Ethics
London: Industry leaders from the major trade associations and buying groups in the UK and Ireland have come together to take a lead on issues of ethics and corporate social responsibility in the jewellery industry by backing the work of the Jewellery Ethics Committee UK (JEC-UK). At a designer-maker evening event organized by JEC-UK at the Goldsmiths’ Centre on Thursday

India Needs More World-Class Gold Refineries
Mumbai: At the two-day seminar organized by the India Bullion and Jewellers Association (IBJA), experts were of the opinion that Indian household, which has total holding of around 25,000 tonnes of gold, needs more gold refineries for monetizing and attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the sector. India continues to be a major consumer of gold, importing on average 600

Indian Bullion Trade Asso. to Retail Gold, Silver
Mumbai: India’s bullion trade body, India Bullion and Jewellers Association Ltd. (IBJA), has entered into retailing of gold and silver coins and bars, reports resourceinvestor.com. This is the first time that IBJA has entered into bullion trading. The association will source gold from overseas and local gold suppliers. The coins will range between 1 gram and 1,000 grams and will

Israel is Best Place to Do Diamonds Business
Ramat Gan: The Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) released a taped invitation to the International Diamond Week in Israel (February 8-12, 2015) that within hours after it was posted online, received a great number of viewings, and it is therefore expected to go viral in the next few days. “We are determined to make the winter edition of the International Diamond

Belgian Court Dislodges Attachment of Zim Gems
Antwerp: The court of First Instance in Antwerp has ruled in favour of Zimbabwe, a move which dislodged the attachment of 500 000 carats of diamonds worth over $45 million that belonged to Marange mining companies, The Herald reports. The diamonds were seized three months ago in Belgium by a South African mining company, Amari Platinum and later by a

IDMA Concerned about Over-grading Diamonds
Antwerp: Maxim Shkadov, President of the International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA) said in an appeal distributed by IDMA that his organization expressed grave concern following the article published by Rapaport on over-grading of polished diamonds. In his article, “Honest Grading” posted last month and emailed to more than 77,000 diamond industry stakeholders, Martin Rapaport disclosed the over-grading of at least

EGL USA Stresses No Connection to Other EGL Labs
New York: EGL USA has responded to recent announcements of the closure of EGL International and the reorganization of the international EGL (European Gemological Laboratory) network by stressing that it does not have any connection with the bodies, reports IDEX Online. Yaakov Tversky, director of EGL USA, said, “Recently, EGL’s overseas laboratories announced plans to close and/or reorganize. This is
