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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Pangolin Recovers White Macro-Diamond

Gaborone: Pangolin Diamonds has recovered a white macro-diamond weighing 0.005484 carats from a soil sample on its recently acquired Malatswae project prospecting licence PL247/2014, in Botswana. It said in a statement that a field team was now on site collecting follow-up samples on a close-spaced grid to help determine the significance of this discovery. The Malatswae kimberlite project was located

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De Beers July Sight Estimated at $775M

Gaborone: The De Beers July sight closed with an estimated value of $775 million. De Beers reportedly raised prices slightly on most goods by 1 percent to 2 percent with sharper hikes in the prices of smaller and lower-quality diamonds. Sightholders noted that De Beers also changed the assortment in its presentation, which partially offset the higher prices of its

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RBI Relaxes Ceiling on Loans against Gold

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India has relaxed the Rs 1-lakh ceiling on loans for nonagricultural purposes against pledged gold and has left it to individual banks to decide on a lending cap. “Banks, as per their board-approved policy, may decide upon the ceiling with regard to the quantum of loans that may be granted against the pledge of gold

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De Beers Announces Model for Rough Allocations

Gaborone: The De Beers Group of Companies yesterday announced its updated model for the allocation of rough diamonds by Global Sightholder Sales (GSS) in respect of the March 2015–March 2018 contractual period. Around 90% of De Beers’ total rough diamond availability by value is sold through GSS. The updated allocations model will involve a new method for determining GSS’s rough

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GJEPC Holds Stall Allotment for Inaugural IIJS Tritiya

Mumbai: India’s Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) conducted the stall allotment procedure for its brand new Bengaluru-based show IIJS Tritiya, at Jio World Centre in Mumbai on 19th December. Some 1500+ booths were allocated to 800+ exhibitors on the same day through a transparent process via an online platform that provided a real-time view of the booths being

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India's Platinum Jewellery Sales Grow by 35%: PJBR

Hong Kong: Despite global geopolitical and economic challenges and the dampening effect of COVID-19, strategic efforts by Platinum Guild International (PGI) to boost sales and heighten the desirability of precious platinum have forged upswings in key markets, as evidenced by the Platinum Jewellery Business Review (PJBR) Q3 2022. “PGI’s mission to boost the desirability of platinum and drive sales for

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CBI Files 3 New Cases against Mehul Choksi

Mumbai: India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed three FIRs on Friday against fugitive Mehul Choksi for cheating and causing a loss of ₹6,800 crore to a consortium of banks. All the FIRs are filed by Mr. Vijay Wadhwa, Deputy General Manager of Punjab National Bank (PNB) on March 21, 2022. The first one states that Mehul Choksi, director of

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Stage Set for Nirav Modi's Extradition to India

London: In his appeal, Nirav Modi argued that there was a high risk of suicide if he was extradited to India to face trial in the multi-crore PNB scam case. Diamond merchant Nirav Modi, accused in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case, suffered another setback in his legal battle against his extradition to India. The High

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