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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Gem Sells Letšeng’s 198 Ct Diamond For $10.6m

London: Gem Diamonds has racked-in $10.6 million from the sale of a 198 ct white diamond recovered end of July from its 70 percent-owned Letšeng mine, in Lesotho. It said in a brief statement emailed to Rough & Polished that the Type II, D colour diamond attracted a price of $53 746/ct. “The sale of this large, high-quality white diamond

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Buddha Diamond Cut to be Exhibited at ADTF

Antwerp: Diamond manufacturers are always looking for ways to innovate and bring new and better products into the market. One of the roads well-travelled toward innovation is the introduction of a new diamond shape or cut. But while Antwerp has seen its share of newly introduced modified cuts, it is not often that we encounter something unusual such as the

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Statement by E.G.L. Platinum

Ramat Gan: Menahem Sevdermish and Avi Meirom, the founding owners of the EGL Platinum laboratory, have issued the following statement in response to the RapNet and Polygon press releases, respectively distributed on September 9 and 15, 2014, regarding the delisting of EGL diamond certificates. EGL Platinum supports RapNet’s and Polygon’s intentions to sanction any laboratory that issues over-graded certification, undermining

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Rare Pink Diamond Ring Snatched

Perth: On Sept. 27, a rare pink diamond ring worth $577,000 was stolen during a viewing day at an auction house, according to a statement from police in New South Wales, Australia. Local news reports say the pink and white diamond ring, which held a rare pink gem excavated from Australia’s Argyle mine, was snatched from a counter during a

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Rough Market Thrives with Double Digit Growth

Antwerp: Figures on the trade in Antwerp in the first six months of the year demonstrate the city is back on track of the pre-pandemic upturn seen in the first few months of 2020, outperforming 2019 figures on rough trade with double digit growth. Polished trade, still suffering from the lack of trade shows and the effects of the pandemic in India, shows

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Rs. 792 Cr Raised as SBI Sells Shares of Defaulters

Mumbai: A consortium of India’s banks led by the country’s largest lender, State Bank of India (SBI), has realised Rs 792.11 crore after selling shares handed over to it by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), following confiscation to assets of fugitive businessmen Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, according to media reports. Mehul Choksi The ED said that till date

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G&J Exports Record Staggering 8.46% Growth in Q1

Studded Gold Jewellery Exports record a growth of 69.87% Cut and Polished diamond exports register a growth of 26.45% Mumbai: India’s gems and jewellery (G&J) exports is back to the pre-covid levels. The overall gross exports of G&J witnessed a  growth of 8.46% to Rs. 67265.66 Crore (3% to US$ 9.18 billion) during April – June 2021 as compared to Rs. 62018.48 Crore

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WGC and GJEPC Enter into Strategic Partnership

Mumbai: The World Gold Council (WGC) and India’s Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) have signed an agreement to promote gold jewellery in India in 2021. Under the terms of the agreement, both partners will jointly fund a multi-media marketing campaign that would aim to increase awareness, relevance and adoption of gold jewellery amongst Indian consumers, especially millennials and gen

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