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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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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Coin Collection Featuring Argyle Pink Diamonds

Perth: The Royal Canadian Mint has unveiled the Opulence Collection consisting of numismatic masterpieces featuring pink diamonds from the famed Argyle mine. This new collection, headlined by the one-of-a-kind Ultimate, a 1kg pure platinum pink diamond coin, was unveiled at the Ottawa Art Gallery. Marie Lemay, President and CEO of the Royal Canadian Mint, said, “The Royal Canadian Mint’s reputation

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WDC Mourns the Demise of Sanjay Shah

New York: The World Diamond Council (WDC) mourns the untimely loss of Sanjay Shah, a serving member of its Board of Directors, who passed away in New York on April 29, 2022. Joining the WDC Board in November 2021, as the representative of India’s Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), Mr. Shah was a long-time member of GJEPC’s Kimberley

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GJEPC to Organise its 1st Ever IGJS in Jaipur

Mumbai: India’s Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) is organising the first ever international physical show post pandemic – International Gem & Jewellery Show (IGJS), from 10th to 12th May 2022, in the pink city Jaipur, at the Jaipur Exhibition and Convention Centre (JECC). IGJS is a by-invitation show exclusively for the international buyers. Gemfields is the associate partner

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India-UAE CEPA Comes into Force From 1st May

New Delhi: The flagging off ceremony of India-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) was held today at Customs House/Cargo Complex, New Delhi International Airport. The landmark agreement has come into force by flagging off the first three consignments of Jewellery from New Delhi to Dubai which would be getting zero duty market access. The flagging off ceremony was presided by Commerce Secretary

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Diamond Mfrg. Industry Fighting for Survival: IDMA

Antwerp: “Diamond manufacturers worldwide are fighting for their survival. They are caught between – and battered by – the proverbial hammer, a rough diamond supply system that is foul and faulty – and the anvil, a vertically integrated financial structure that basically continues to bleed them,” Maxim Shkadov, president of the International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA), the representative body of

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Gold Prices Unlikely to Settle due to Iraq Tensions

Mumbai: With the turmoil in Ukraine almost gone from the headlines, gold’s status as a hard asset and storer of wealth in times of trouble lost some of its shine. But as Iraq spirals into all-out war and the US looks in danger of being pulled back into a conflict it has spent the last six years extricating itself from,

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122.52 Carat Blue Diamond Found at Cullinan

Johannesburg: In what is shaping up to be one of most the amazing diamond finds in recent times, a 122.52 ct. blue diamond—the size of a walnut—has been discovered at the Cullinan mine in South Africa, said mine owner Petra Diamonds. Blue diamonds are ultrarare, as are stones weighing more than 100 cts.—making this, as Petra puts it, a “truly

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KP Should Focus on Conflict-Torn Regions only

Shanghai: The newly elected president of the World Diamond Council (WDC) Edward Asscher, put a chill Tuesday on the movement to expand the scope of the Kimberley Process and so cover general human rights abuses, stating the trade body should focus exclusively on diamonds proceeding from conflict zones. Speaking at the Intercessional Meeting of the Kimberley Process in Shanghai, Asscher

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