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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
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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IIJS Bharat Premiere 2026 Opens with New FTAs, New Markets
Mumbai: The 42nd edition of IIJS Bharat Premiere opened at the Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai, today, against the most favourable trade backdrop the Indian gem and jewellery industry has ever known. A succession of free trade agreements — with the UAE, Australia, Oman and the United Kingdom, with the European Union and New Zealand to follow — has redrawn
BDB Hosts Presentation on Fluorescence in Natural Diamonds by GIA Experts
Mumbai: In the latest round of Leadership Series talks hosted by Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB), two senior experts from the Gemological Institute of America (GIA)-Mr. Sriram Natarajan, Senior Vice President, Global Laboratory Operations, GIA, and Dr. Yun Luo, Director, Metrology and Quality Control, GIA, highlighted some of the institute’s latest scientific research into the impact of fluorescence on the appearance of natural
INNOV8: Innovative Seminars at IIJS Premiere
Mumbai: The India International Jewellery Show (IIJS) Bharat Premiere 2026, being held by GJEPC between 5th & 10th August at two different venues of Mumbai has, as usual also organized the Innov8, a series of innovative seminar at both the venues. The schedule is given below: Some of the key sessions at BEC Hall 6 include:6 Aug: Luxury Jewellery, Retail
Qatar Diamond Exchange Joins the WFDB
Doha: The Qatar Diamond Exchange (QDE) has officially been admitted as a member of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB), the exclusive organization that – as of now – unites 27 diamond bourses on five continents under common trading rules and a shared code of conduct. QDE’s admission was announced during the 41st World Diamond Congress, convened by the
VicenzaOro Dubai from 14th April 2016
Dubai: VICENZAORO DUBAI (VOD), organized by DV Global Link – a joint-venture company between Fiera di Vicenza and the DUBAI World Trade Centre (DWTC), will “open a new chapter in the worldwide jewellery industry” as the unique networking platform designed for the Jewellery Business Community in Dubai; one of the world’s top trading hubs for gold, jewellery, gemstones and diamonds.
SA to Boost Black Involvement in Diamond Sector
Johannesburg: A new South African association has been launched to increase the involvement of young, mainly black entrepreneurs in processing and manufacturing rough diamonds. The South African Young Diamond Beneficiators’ Guild, which was launched at the recently held first South African Diamond Indaba, aims to help start-ups led by mainly black entrepreneurs to cut and polish diamonds. The creation of
Two in Custody over GIA Report Hacking
Mumbai: The GIA has announced that two former employees of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) are in custody in connection with the alteration of 1,042 of the lab’s grading reports. The police informed GIA that the investigation has reached a point where it may now publish the client accounts that submitted the diamonds in question. A list of the invalidated reports
GJEPC and BDB Host Delegation from Botswana
Mumbai: The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) and the Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) hosted a delegation from Botswana, led by its Vice President, HE Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi on October 26th 2015, at the Bourse Complex in Mumbai. At the meeting, attending by representatives of some of the largest member companies of the two organizations, Praveenshankar Pandya, Chairman
