Why Is a Widening Gulf War Lifting Oil but Sinking Gold and Silver?

Macro Snapshot: The week ending 30 October brought the kind of news that once sent buyers into gold. Reuters reported the first known successful limpet-mine strike on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz since the war began in February, and Houthi forces claimed strikes on Saudi refineries. Washington ordered non-emergency government staff out of Saudi Arabia amid reports that US strikes on Iran could resume after the 3 November midterm elections. Brent rose 13.6% over October, with the expiring

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Why Is a Widening Gulf War Lifting Oil but Sinking Gold and Silver?

Macro Snapshot: The week ending 30 October brought the kind of news that once sent buyers into gold. Reuters reported the first known successful limpet-mine strike on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz since the war began in February, and Houthi forces claimed strikes on Saudi refineries. Washington ordered non-emergency government staff out of Saudi Arabia amid reports that US strikes on Iran could resume after the 3 November midterm elections. Brent rose 13.6% over October, with the expiring

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GJEPC Suggests Changes to Gold Deposit Scheme

Mumbai: India’s Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) has proposed changes in the revamped gold deposit scheme to make it more attractive, enable its larger acceptance and garner additional deposits of idle gold in the country. The council suggested changes to the Revamped – Gold Deposit Scheme (R-GDS) in a video conference with Tarun Bajaj, Secretary in the Department

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MUBRI World Meeting Goes Virtual from 2-4 October

Panama: From October 2nd to 4th, the 5th edition of the MUBRI World Meeting – an event promote by the renowned MUBRI International Group, an association created in 2016, in Panama City, for the promotion, development and professional advancement of entrepreneurs in the jewelry, precious stones and watches sector. With past editions held in Italy – VicenzaOro, Spain – Madrid

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Kim Pelletier Named CEO of Get Diamonds Platform

Antwerp: The World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) announced today that it has recruited industry veteran Ms. Kim E. Pelletier to serve as CEO of the newly formed Get Diamonds B2B diamond trading platform. Get Diamonds, which is owned by the WFDB, is the only non-profit entity diamond trading platform whose slogan is “By the industry, for the industry.”Get Diamonds

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Sovereign Gold Bonds Open Today for Subscription

Mumbai : The sixth tranche of gold bonds of this fiscal opens for subscription tomorrow amid volatile prices of the yellow metal in recent days. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has fixed the issue price at 5,117 per gram. Those applying online and making payment online get a discount of ₹50 per gram. For such investors, the issue price of

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Pangolin Recovers White Macro-Diamond

Gaborone: Pangolin Diamonds has recovered a white macro-diamond weighing 0.005484 carats from a soil sample on its recently acquired Malatswae project prospecting licence PL247/2014, in Botswana. It said in a statement that a field team was now on site collecting follow-up samples on a close-spaced grid to help determine the significance of this discovery. The Malatswae kimberlite project was located

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De Beers July Sight Estimated at $775M

Gaborone: The De Beers July sight closed with an estimated value of $775 million. De Beers reportedly raised prices slightly on most goods by 1 percent to 2 percent with sharper hikes in the prices of smaller and lower-quality diamonds. Sightholders noted that De Beers also changed the assortment in its presentation, which partially offset the higher prices of its

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RBI Relaxes Ceiling on Loans against Gold

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India has relaxed the Rs 1-lakh ceiling on loans for nonagricultural purposes against pledged gold and has left it to individual banks to decide on a lending cap. “Banks, as per their board-approved policy, may decide upon the ceiling with regard to the quantum of loans that may be granted against the pledge of gold

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De Beers Announces Model for Rough Allocations

Gaborone: The De Beers Group of Companies yesterday announced its updated model for the allocation of rough diamonds by Global Sightholder Sales (GSS) in respect of the March 2015–March 2018 contractual period. Around 90% of De Beers’ total rough diamond availability by value is sold through GSS. The updated allocations model will involve a new method for determining GSS’s rough

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