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

Read More »

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

Read More »

Top News

Construction of India Jewellery Park, Mumbai Begins

Navi Mumbai: The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) yesterday marked a historic milestone in the development of India Jewellery Park Mumbai (IJPM) with the commencement of construction at Mahape, Navi Mumbai. The ceremony marks the transition of this long-cherished industry vision into the construction phase, bringing India’s ambition to establish a world-class, integrated jewellery manufacturing hub a significant

Read More »

Qatar Diamond Exchange Broadens Asian Presence

Doha: The Qatar Diamond Exchange (QDE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Diamond Federation of Hong Kong, China (DFHK), establishing a strategic partnership between the two organizations. The agreement was formalized in Hong Kong by Ghanim Al-Saadi, Director of the Qatar Diamond Exchange, and Lawrence Ma, President of DFHK. Founded in 2000, DFHK represents Hong Kong’s diamond

Read More »

Diamonds for Development Fund Receives Initial Funding

Gaborone: The Government of the Republic of Botswana and De Beers Group yesterday announced that De Beers Group has transferred its initial contribution of BWP1 billion to the Diamond for Development Fund, marking a major milestone in the progress of the Fund and its mandate to support Botswana’s long-term economic diversification. The disbursement follows the establishment of the Fund’s governance

Read More »

De Beers Reports Lower Q3 Output

London:  De Beers reported an 11% year-on-year decrease in rough diamond production to 6.8-million carats for the quarter ended September 30, primarily driven by planned plant maintenance at Orapa, in Botswana, and a slowdown at Venetia, in South Africa, ahead of a planned two-year production pause. Operational Performance: De Beers notes that rough diamond production was 11% lower at 6.8

Read More »

Vintage Jewellery Proves Worthy Investment

London: Vintage jewellery has gained more than 80 percent in value in the past decade, with many owners not realizing how much money they are sitting on, U.K.-based auction house Bonhams said. Jewellery from the Art Deco period in the 1920s and 1930s and pieces from the Belle Epoque era from 1890 to 1915 have appreciated 88 percent since 2006,

Read More »

AGS Introduces ‘Only My Diamond’ Service

New York: The American Gem Society Laboratories (AGS Laboratories) has started a new service called Only My Diamond. The interactive online tool on the AGSLab web site provides an enhancement to AGS Laboratories’ Diamond QualityDocument (DQD) by offering supplementary diamond quality information. The Only My Diamond service includes a downloadable PDF of the Diamond Quality Document (DQD), a video of

Read More »

Sarine’s Sales Expected to Grow in Q4

Tel Aviv: Sarine Technologies expects fourth quarter revenue grew significantly as sentiment improved in the Indian diamond manufacturing sector, the diamond equipment supplier said in a trading update. The company projected sales will surpass $18 million during the final three months of 2016, which would imply a 45 percent jump from a year ago but falls in line with the

Read More »

Nitin Khandelwal Appointed as Chairman of GJF

Mumbai: The All India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation (GJF), a national trade federation for the promotion and growth of trade in gems and jewellery across India, has appointed Mr. Nitin Khandelwal as Chairman and Mr. Pramod Agarwal as Vice Chairman for a period of two years. The list of other Directors of GJF has been uploaded on the company

Read More »

Latest Videos