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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
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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Winners Take Home Trophies at 2014 JNA Awards
Hong Kong: Anoop Mehta of the Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) and Ahmed Bin Sulayem of the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) – exceptional and inspiring leaders who are making an incredible impact in the gemstone and jewellery industry – led this year’s crop of 20 JNA Awards recipients. The awardees were feted in a spectacular ceremony and gala dinner that
Now Polygon Bans EGL Reports From Network
New York: The Polygon trading network will no longer list diamonds with European Gemological Laboratory (EGL) International reports on its service—although another platform, IDEX, says EGL reports remain welcome. The announcements come in the wake of trading network RapNet’s decision to ban all EGL reports. “We have been closely following the current discussions regarding EGL International, both on and off
De Beers Held Talks with Dubai Diamond Exchange
Dubai: A delegation of senior executives from De Beers visited the Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE) on September 14, with the sides discussing future collaboration, the increasing role that the producing nations play along the New Silk Route and the opportunities this shift is bringing. DDE Chairman Peter Meeus hosted the delegation along DMCC Chief Executive Officer Gautam Sashittal. The De
Gemfields to Explore Gemstones in Sri Lanka
Colombo: Colored gemstone miner, Gemfields Plc formed a joint venture East West Gem Investments Ltd. (EWGI) to explore sapphire and gemstones in Sri Lanka. Under the agreement, the joint venture will operate through three Sri Lankan subsidiaries. Gemfields will hold a 75 percent stake in the project with EWGI holding the remaining 25 percent stake. Gemfields said it acquired a
PGI Targets 1000 Outlets in India by End of 2015
Mumbai: Popularity of platinum jewellery is growing on a fast track in India with the consumption crossing over 5 tons this year from about 400 kgs. in 2009. The India Manager of Platinum Guild Ms. Vaishali Banerjee told G2J “This is the right time for us (PGI) to be aggressive in our marketing approach and hence we recently restructured our
India not to Use Gold Deposits as Part of CRR, SLR
New Delhi: The Indian government has dropped plans to utilize gold mobilized under the proposed Monetization scheme for meeting mandatory liquidity requirements for banks, as it wants to avoid another confrontation with Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The government dropped plan to use gold deposits as part of CRR, SLR in gold monetization scheme because of opposition from RBI, sources
IIJS 2015 Ended with Enhanced Response
Mumbai: The 32nd edition India International Jewellery Show (IIJS) ended here on 10th August with more response than the exhibitors and organizers had expected. Huge debacle in gold prices is said to have inspired strong traffic at the show. Now domestic jewelers expect enhanced sales during the upcoming festive and wedding season. The show, supposed to be Asia’s largest is
“Zimbabwe Mining Consolidation of Little Purpose”
Harare: A member of parliament for Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has claimed that the planned consolidation of the country’s diamond mining companies in Marange is of “little purpose”. Eddie Cross, an economist, said although less was known about the remaining deposits at Marange, it was believed that a sheet of agglomerate across much of the site was
