Why Did Gold & Silver Break Down Just as Fed Hike Bets Faded

Macro Snapshot: The rate backdrop eased during the week ending 23 October, which makes the metals’ slide harder to explain. CME FedWatch odds of a hike at the 27 to 28 October FOMC meeting had settled near one in three on 14 October, after the 3.7% September CPI print, and stood at 9.4% by 23 October. December hike odds slipped from about 90% to close to 80%. The 10-year Treasury yield closed at 5.00% against 5.09% a week earlier, and

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Why Did Gold & Silver Break Down Just as Fed Hike Bets Faded

Macro Snapshot: The rate backdrop eased during the week ending 23 October, which makes the metals’ slide harder to explain. CME FedWatch odds of a hike at the 27 to 28 October FOMC meeting had settled near one in three on 14 October, after the 3.7% September CPI print, and stood at 9.4% by 23 October. December hike odds slipped from about 90% to close to 80%. The 10-year Treasury yield closed at 5.00% against 5.09% a week earlier, and

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Anglo May Sell Nine Mines

Gaborone: Anglo American, whose chief executive Mark Cutifani is reviewing assets to divest non-performing businesses, may announce at least nine more mines for sale, according to Standard Bank. Anglo, which reports first-half earnings today, has said it was seeking to improve its return on capital to at least 15 percent by 2016 from about 8 percent in June 2013. Cutifani

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De Beers Unveils Sightholder Logo

Gaborone: De Beers has unveiled a new logo for clients to signify they are part of the company club. The new sightholder logo is built around an S in a circle, with a diamond-like icon in the middle, over the word sightholder in large letters, and “of the De Beers Group of Companies” in smaller letters. (The old identifier, “Family

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Pandora to Celebrate Women around the World

New York: Jewellery brand Pandora has launched a new initiative that it says will celebrate the selfless work women do within their communities and around the world to improve the livelihood of women and children. Called the Pandora Hearts of Today, the program will give the brand the opportunity to support a variety of women-focused charitable programs. To help identify

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ALROSA’s Net Profit under RAS +59% in 1H

Moscow: Following the 1st half of 2014 OJSC AK ALROSA posted net profit under RAS soared by 59%, or 1.6 times, – to RUB 24.174 billion compared to RUB15.209 billion a year earlier, according to the company’s financial statement, cited by Finmarket.ru. ALROSA’s revenue increased by 20% and amounted to RUB81.551 billion compared to RUB68.01 billion in the 1st half

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Element Six Sues IIa Technologies

Singapore: Element Six Technologies Ltd has today (12 January 2016) begun legal action in Singapore against IIa Technologies Pte. Ltd alleging infringement of its patents concerning synthetic diamond material. Element Six believes that certain of its patents for proprietary synthetic diamond products and their method of manufacture have been infringed (in particular Singapore patent numbers 115872 and 110508). It is

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National Jewellery Awards on 6th Feb in Mumbai

Mumbai: The All India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation (GJF) has announced its 6th edition of National Jewellery Awards (NJA) 2015 -16, Grand Finale to be held in Mumbai on 6th February, 2016. The NJA, being the most prestigious awards of the Gems & Jewellery industry will recognize and honor design, talent and establish new trends in the Indian Jewellery

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World's First Diamond-Backed Cryptocurrency

New York: The companies behind the world’s first diamond-backed cryptocurrency will start selling the digital coinage this month. The asset class used is colored diamonds, which the founders of the PinkCoin claim have not lost value since tracking began in 1959, reports Rapaport. Precious Investments and its subsidiary BitGem Asset Management (BAM) will launch the PinkCoin crowdsale – a crowdfunding

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Gold Demand Down by 15% Due to Poor Rain

Kolkata: The demand for gold will be less this wedding season – by 10 per cent-15 per cent – beginning January 15 in rural India as farmers have been affected by a poor kharif crop due to inadequate rains, reports The Economic Times. Lower commodity prices have made matters worse for them, and now they are keeping their fingers crossed

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