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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Augmont Gold for All Gets "Best OTT Platform" Award

Mumbai: India’s Gold Platform, run by Augmont Gold For All, has been honoured with the “Best OTT Platform for 2023” award at the recently held 8th India Bullion & Jewellery awards 2023. The Indian Bullion and Jewellery Association ltd (IBJA) organised the magnificent Award unveiling ceremony. IBJA recognises and honours the most deserving candidates while preserving the greatest level of

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De Beers Finds a Diamond within Diamond

London: A De Beers sightholder found an “anomaly” in one of its parcels: a diamond encased within another diamond. India-based VD Global discovered the 0.329-carat, D-color, type IaAB diamond, named the Beating Heart, in October, and returned it to De Beers for testing, the miner said last week. The stone originated from one of De Beers’ mines in Botswana, Canada,

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GIA to Join De Beers' Tracr Blockchain Platform

London: The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) will join De Beers’ Tracr, the world’s first distributed diamond blockchain platform. The diamond group said GIA’s participation in Tracr will enable the world’s leading diamond grading laboratory to include an immutable record of the provenance of polished diamonds in its diamond grading reports for the first time, as the industry moves towards

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GIA Reintroduces Paper Certs after Backlash

New York: GIA has bowed to pressure and says it will re-introduce paper certificates, at no extra cost, as of Sunday (9 April), reports idexonline. The move to digital-only Diamond Dossiers, for stones up to 1.99-cts, provoked widespread criticism from retailers, who said some customers were refusing to buy a diamond without one. In a message to clients, GIA (Gemological Institute of America) said it “did

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India may Announce Budget Sops

Mumbai: India’s gems and jewellery sector, one of the focus areas of the government’s ambitious ‘Make in India’ programme, may get incentives in the Union Budget next month. The sector contributes significantly to growth in the country’s overall exports and has been identified by the government as one of the 25 focus segments for ‘Make in India’ campaign. Commerce and

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DDE to Host Second Diamond Conference

Dubai: The Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE) has announced that it will host the second Dubai Diamond Conference. The agenda will include panel discussions on business development in Africa, ethics, finance and synthetic diamonds. The two-day event will include speakers from Africa, the Middle East and Asia, including several ministers of Mines and Mineral Resources from leading African diamond producing countries.

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Indian Jewellery Firms Struggle to Get Credit

Mumbai: Jewellery firms are finding it increasingly hard to get credit to import raw material and ship out their wares as banks tighten the screws, worried about defaults and sharp practices in the sector, reports Business Today. The problem has become so acute that jewellery industry executives are sitting down for talks next Tuesday with finance ministry officials, said Bachhraj

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Lust for Gold Eating up World’s Last Rainforests

New York: Global demand for gold is putting some of the most remote and pristine tropical forests at risk, especially in South America, a study published in Environmental Research Letters shows. Most of the deforestation for mining occurred after 2007, when gold demand increased following the financial crisis as investors sought a safe haven for their money. Around 1,680 sq.

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