Why Is a Widening Gulf War Lifting Oil but Sinking Gold and Silver?

Macro Snapshot: The week ending 30 October brought the kind of news that once sent buyers into gold. Reuters reported the first known successful limpet-mine strike on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz since the war began in February, and Houthi forces claimed strikes on Saudi refineries. Washington ordered non-emergency government staff out of Saudi Arabia amid reports that US strikes on Iran could resume after the 3 November midterm elections. Brent rose 13.6% over October, with the expiring

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Why Is a Widening Gulf War Lifting Oil but Sinking Gold and Silver?

Macro Snapshot: The week ending 30 October brought the kind of news that once sent buyers into gold. Reuters reported the first known successful limpet-mine strike on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz since the war began in February, and Houthi forces claimed strikes on Saudi refineries. Washington ordered non-emergency government staff out of Saudi Arabia amid reports that US strikes on Iran could resume after the 3 November midterm elections. Brent rose 13.6% over October, with the expiring

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AGL Celebrates Five Years under New Management

New York, 15th April: American Gemological Laboratories (AGL), a provider of high-quality gemstone analysis and reporting is celebrating its five-year anniversary under the stewardship of Christopher P. Smith. “Five years ago, AGL was re-privatized during one of the most difficult periods the US and world financial markets have experienced in recent decades. AGL, however, had a good reputation and we did

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Gold Smuggling Arrests Jump 750% YoY in India

Mumbai, 14th April: While cases of gold smuggling in India have jumped 265% from 40 in 2012-13 to 146 in 2013-14, the number of people arrested has shot up by 750%, from 30 in 2012-13 to 255 in 2013-14, data from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence shows, according to a report published in Mineweb. “Gold imports through the legal channel have

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Russia’s Rough Diamond Exports -29.9% in Q4

Russia’s exports of rough diamonds in the fourth quarter of 2015 decreased by 29.9% compared to the same period of 2014, reaching 7.556 million carats, while the country’s imports grew by 61.7% to 16,870 carats, as it follows from the materials published by the Ministry of Finance. In value terms, exports fell by 38.6% to $ 727.043 million, while imports

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VOD Becomes Strategic Hub for Global Jewellery

Dubai: April 14 – 17, 2016, saw the second edition of the international gold and jewellery trade show, organized by DV Global Link, a joint venture between Fiera di Vicenza and the Dubai World Trade Centre. The second edition of VICENZAORO Dubai has confirmed the event’s role as a new strategic platform for global jewellery. Organized in Dubai between 14

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Luvenus Jewellery is 'Authorised Diamond Dealer'

Singapore: Luvenus Jewellery Pte Ltd., a diamond and gold jewellery retailer has become Singapore’s first retail jeweller to join the WDM Authorised Diamond Dealer (ADD) programme, the World Diamond Mark Foundation announced in a statement last week. Describing the Singapore jewellery market as a micro-cosmos with a unique consumer profile of people from all over the world – locals, expats

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Speakers for 37th World Diamond Congress

Antwerp: With little more than a month to go to the 37th World Diamond Congress, the biennial meeting of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) and the International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA), the WFDB is putting the final touches to the programme and has announced the speakers list for the meeting. The overarching theme of the Congress, which will

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