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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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Divine Solitaires, SGL Launch ‘Know Your Diamond’ Zone
Mumbai: The initiative equips Divine Solitaires’ reputed partner jewellers with advanced screening technology that can help verify key characteristics of diamonds,including whether a diamond is natural or laboratory-grown, checking laser inscriptions andverifying Hearts & Arrows (H&A). The screening machines will be provided as inventory to premium Divine Solitaires partner jewellers, enabling consumers to access the technology free of charge at
Sky Gold & Diamonds Acquires Purvi Gems
Mumbai: Sky Gold & Diamonds Ltd., (Sky Gold) one of India’s leading jewellery manufacturers and exporters, has successfully completed the acquisition of 100% equity shares of Purvi Gems & Jewellery (India) Private Limited, a company engaged in the manufacturing of uncut and precia jewellery and related products. Following the completion of the acquisition on October 7, 2026, Sky Gold is
‘UNNATI’ to Power Women in G&J Industry
Surat: The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), the apex body of India’s gem and jewellery industry, yesterday launched ‘UNNATI – Powering Women in Gems & Jewellery’, a national mission to drive women in the sector learn, lead and grow as skilled professionals, entrepreneurs and future leaders. Beginning with its Gujarat chapter at Sardar Patel Smruti Bhavan, Surat, UNNATI
QDE Widens its Scope with CIBJO Membership
Doha: The Qatar Diamond Exchange (QDE) has been admitted to membership of CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO), the international jewellery industry’s principal representative and standards-setting body. QDE joins as a National Association Member, extending the exchange’s international standing beyond the diamond trade into the wider diamond, coloured gemstone and jewellery sector. QDE’s membership was approved in CIBJO’s centenary year.
DS to Set Synthetic Screening Service in Shanghai
Hong Kong: Diamond Services has announced that it will begin offering synthetic diamond screening services directly to the Chinese diamond trade through the facilities in Shanghai of NGGC, the state-owned gem laboratory that is one of the largest grading institutes in China. The synthetic diamond screening service will begin on November 2. Diamond Services, which was established in 2012 in
Chairman of GJEPC Discusses Industry Issues
Mumbai: Mr. Praveenshankar Pandya, the newly elected Chairman and Mr. Russell Mehta, the Vice Chairman of the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) addressed their inaugural Press Meet on Tuesday where they focused on some of the issues faced by the gem & jewellery industry and enlisted the industry’s budgetary demands. Commenting on the slowdown in the global market,
PNG Jewellers Opens Showroom at Fremont, USA
Mumbai: The latest international showroom of PNG Jewellers was launched in Fremont, California on 16th October at 6 PM by Bollywood Actress Preity Zinta. PNG Jewllers is one of the most reputed jewellers in the country, with over 183 years of legacy and has been growing to be an international brand since past two decades. They have proudly presented their
Taliban Reportedly Involved in Gold, Lapis Trade
New York: The Taliban is illegally mining gold and controls access to a source of lapis lazuli, according to a United Nations Security Council report on Afghanistan issued in August. The report, issued by the council’s sanctions monitoring team, quotes Afghan officials as saying Taliban forces have gained control of an illegal gold mining operation in Arghistan, Afghanistan. The fundamentalist
