A Surging Rupee Tripled Gold’s Global Loss in India as Silver Broke Down

Macro Snapshot: The Reserve Bank of India changed the domestic arithmetic before trading opened on 12 October. On 10 October it announced a special window to meet the entire daily dollar requirement of Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum directly from its reserves, taking a large block of import demand out of the spot market. The central bank also tightened rupee derivative rules, imposing a 20% Foreign Exchange Risk Reserve on eligible contracts above $2 million and barring the

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A Surging Rupee Tripled Gold’s Global Loss in India as Silver Broke Down

Macro Snapshot: The Reserve Bank of India changed the domestic arithmetic before trading opened on 12 October. On 10 October it announced a special window to meet the entire daily dollar requirement of Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum directly from its reserves, taking a large block of import demand out of the spot market. The central bank also tightened rupee derivative rules, imposing a 20% Foreign Exchange Risk Reserve on eligible contracts above $2 million and barring the

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Israel International Diamond Week from Mar 27, 2023

Ramat Gan: Israel International Diamond Week, to be held from March 27–30, 2023, will feature a much-anticipated tender of polished goods held at the Israel Diamond Exchange’s (IDE) International Tender Center. The tender will be conducted by Diagurus from March 26 – 30, 2023. The tender will include a large amount of white and fancy color polished goods in a

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Estimated ₹30k Cr Orders Booked at IIJS Signature

Mumbai: The recently concluded, IIJS Signature 2023, this year’s first & largest jewellery trade show, has booked orders worth Rs. 30,000 crore, as per the initial estimates by The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC). The 15th edition of IIJS Signature, the biggest-ever and first-ever ‘Green Expo’ saw several brilliantly designed gem & jewellery creations from diverse parts of

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GJEPC Seeks Jewellery Repair Policy from Govt.

Recommends 4% import duty on gold, silver & platinum; allowing sale of rough diamonds in SNZs; Zero duty on Lab Grown Diamond seeds 5 key recommendations in wishlist of GJEPC… Allow Sale of Rough diamonds in Special Notified Zone through Safe Harbour rule Re-Introduce Diamond Imprest Licence Repair Policy for Jewellery to tap $ 5.75 bn opportunity & create jobs

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Plain Gold Jewellery Exports Grow Post India-UAE CEPA

Mumbai: For the period of April–December 2022, the overall gross exports of Cut & Polished diamonds (CPDs) declined 1.24% to ₹132,075.47 crores (fell 7.67% in dollar terms to US$ 16,625.45 million) as compared to ₹133,737.22 crores (US$ 18,006.79 million) for the same period last year. The Ukraine-Russia conflict has started to affect the Cut & Polished Diamond exports that has

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India’s Rough Imports Inceased by 16.19%

Mumbai: India’s cut & polished diamond exports for month of June 2014 has registered $1,469 million (2,695,000 carats), showing a decrease of 0.66 percent against $1,478.81 million (2,806,000 carats) during June 2013, according to the provisional figures announced by the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) of India. For the period of April 2014 to June 2014 too, cut

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3 Carat Synthetic Largest-Ever Grown Gem

New York: Pure Grown, the man-made diamond company formerly known as Gemesis, is selling a 3 ct. K SI stone­—which it calls the largest colorless diamond ever produced by nonnatural means, reports jckonline. Lisa Bissell, the Fabrikant veteran recently appointed president and CEO of the company, says that she has every intention of selling the gem, which has a report

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Zimbabwe Imposes Embargo on Rough Export

Harare: The Zimbabwean government has reportedly banned the export of rough diamonds to ensure the country realises maximum value for its gems. NewsDay quoted Mines and Mining Development minister Walter Chidhakwa as saying that the issue was extensively discussed and Cabinet agreed and directed that “we implement the new institutional programme”. He said Harare had recognized that it was “not

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GJF Launches Monthly ‘G&J Times’

Mumbai: The All India Gems and Jewellery Trade Federation (GJF), the national trade federation for the promotion and growth of trade in Gems and Jewellery (G&J) Industry across India, hosted an exciting 6th edition of its signature GJF NITE 2014 in Mumbai. The fun filled, entertaining and musical fashion extravaganza event, presented by R. M. Jewellery and powered by CVM,

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