With December Hike Odds Intact, Can a Midterm Rally Repair Gold, Silver’s Breakdowns?

Macro Snapshot: Gold posted its best week since late August, but it got there on rate relief that had disappeared by Friday. COMEX gold rose 4.5% to $4,074.9 and silver 5.4% to $51.94 while cheaper oil pushed the odds of a December Fed hike down from about 71% on 30 October to 64% ahead of Friday’s payrolls, according to CME FedWatch readings reported by Benzinga and Reuters. The jobs data sent the odds back up to 74.8%, CNBC reported, a

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With December Hike Odds Intact, Can a Midterm Rally Repair Gold, Silver’s Breakdowns?

Macro Snapshot: Gold posted its best week since late August, but it got there on rate relief that had disappeared by Friday. COMEX gold rose 4.5% to $4,074.9 and silver 5.4% to $51.94 while cheaper oil pushed the odds of a December Fed hike down from about 71% on 30 October to 64% ahead of Friday’s payrolls, according to CME FedWatch readings reported by Benzinga and Reuters. The jobs data sent the odds back up to 74.8%, CNBC reported, a

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CIBJO Special Report on Precious Metals

Milan: As the countdown to the 2024 CIBJO Congress in Shanghai continues, the third pre-Congress Special Report has been released. Prepared by the CIBJO Precious Metals Commission headed by Vaishali Banerjee, Managing Director of PGI India, the report offers a comprehensive analysis of the gold, platinum, palladium, and silver markets over the past year. The group of precious metals showed

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India’s Imports of Russian Diamonds Increased

New Delhi: India’s imports of Russian diamonds have increased during January-June 2024 by 22% year-on-year to 4.1 million carats, according to the official data of the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry. In June, Russian exports amounted to 347,620 carats, which is almost 32% more than in June last year. In six months, most of the supplies, about 77%, accounted

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Gems Keep Giving Relaunches with New Board

New York: Gems Keep Giving (GKG), an International Colored Gemstone (ICA) industry initiative that supports communities in artisanal colored gemstone mining and cutting communities, has recently reorganized, appointing a new board and Chair. Securing its stature as an independent, not-for-profit (501-C3) charitable organization, Gems Keep Giving newly elected Board members are Hayley Henning (Chair), Damien Cody, Clement Sabbagh, Ruth Benjamin-Thomas, Brian

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Augmont Gold For All Wins Top Honours

Mumbai: Augmont Gold For All, one of India’s largest fully integrated Gold-Tech companies, announced its double victory at the India Gold Conference 2023-24. The company has secured two of the industry’s most prestigious awards: Leading Gold Bullion Refiner (All-India) of 2023-24 and Innovative Digital Gold Player of 2023-24. These accolades underscore Augmont’s dominance and pioneering spirit in the gold market. The

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Mellier: Sustainable Returns Are Key To Investment

Tel Aviv: Addressing the second day of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) and International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA) Presidents meeting in Tel Aviv earlier yesterday, Philippe Mellier, Chief Executive, De Beers Group, said that sustainable returns across the diamond pipeline are the key to investment to underpin further growth. “Diamantaires need to make sustainable returns so they can

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Mystery Diamond Treatment Also Found at IGI

New York: The previously unknown treatment that temporarily boosts a diamond’s color has also been discovered on diamonds submitted to the Antwerp branch of the International Gemological Institute (IGI), according to a report being released in Israeli newsletter Diamond Intelligence Briefing. On May 13, GIA said it suspected that as many as 500 stones had been treated with a mystery

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Botswana Invites Bids for New Diamond Licenses

Gaborone: Botswana’s Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources through the Department of Mines on Monday invited interested companies or individuals to apply for precious stones prospecting licenses in the Orapa Kimberlite Field. In a statement, the ministry says areas to be applied for have been divided into six blocks covering some known kimberlites in the Orapa-Letlhakane area in eastern

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CPAI Asks to Increase Gold Purity Testing Centres

New Delhi: The Commodity Participants Association of India (CPAI) on Monday asked the Indian Government to increase the gold purity testing centres from 350 at present to 3,500 under the Gold Monetization Scheme (GMS), reports Busines Standard. It also suggested that the interest rate for the gold deposit scheme should be “decided in a manner that it is neither be

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