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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UNI & EZcalc Hold Inaugural White Diamond Tender

Ramat Gan: With the end-of-year holiday shopping season now officially underway, UNI and EZcalc have announced their inaugural White Diamond Tender, which will take place December 10 to 14, 2020, and following that become a regular weekly event. On offer will be hand-selected, high-quality polished diamonds of unusual value, exclusively being made available for the sale. “White Diamond Tenders are

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India’s G&J Exports Recovering at Fast Pace: GJEPC

Mumbai: India’s Gems and Jewellery (G&J) sector has shown signs of green shoots of exports after a long pandemic struggle of over 8 months. The November 2020 gross exports of Gems & Jewellery reported USD 2.48 Bn a mere 3.88 percent decline as compared to the gross exports of USD 2.58 Bn reported in November 2019. Overall gross exports however this

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PGI Launches Men of Platinum's New Campaign

Mumbai: During the last few months, we all have been faced with several challenges – be it personal or professional. And it’s true; adversity is the biggest test of character, of the values and beliefs one stands by. When faced with tough choices and standing at the crossroads only a few managed to come through and make the right choices,

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CIBJO President Applauds Decision in United Kingdom

Milan: Mr. Gaetano Cavalieri, President of CIBJO, the World Jewellery Confederation, has described as “profoundly important” the agreement in the United Kingdom between the National Association of Jewellers (NAJ) and UK Trading Standards, a British government service working to ensure that consumers are protected from unfair trading, to provide the Diamond Terminology Guideline the status of Primary Authority Advice. Developed

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RBI to Swap Gold to Improve Reserves Quality

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said yesterday that it had sought quotes from banks to swap gold in its own vaults for international-standard gold, aiming to improve the management of its reserves. The RBI sources said that the measure would “standardize the gold available with RBI in India with respect to international standards” and the gold acquired would

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6,000-Gram Gold “Devil’s Ear” Unearthed in Russia

Moscow: Russian miners have unearthed a scary-looking 6,664-gram piece of gold they labeled the “Devil’s Ear” on Friday the 13th. According to the official publication of the local government, workers at the Ukhagan mine in the Bodaybinsky district of Siberia found the piece, the largest nugget ever found in the area, on June 13, the eve of the full moon.

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India May Increase Duty on Synthetics to 10%

New Delhi: The government may increase the import duty on man-made diamonds to 10 per cent in order to remove the price differential with natural diamonds which encourages some jewellers to “cheat the customers”, reports The Indian Express. Simultaneously, it could abolish the customs duty on cut and polished gem stones as these can be re-exported at higher value. The

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Pre-Budget Recommendations by GJF

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) sector across India, has urged Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley to abolish 80:20 rule for gold import, which allows only the nominated agencies to import gold on the condition that 20 per cent

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