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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
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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Kashi Jewellers Honoured with ‘No.1 Exporter Award’
Lucknow: Kashi Jewellers has won UP Government’s No. 1 Exporter Award in the Gems and Jewellery Industry on 24th January 2019 in Lucknow, the award was presented to Mr. Shreyansh Kapoor, Vice-President, Kashi Jewellers by honorable Governor Mr. Ram Naik and the Chief Minister Mr. Yogi Adityanath. Established in 1955, Kashi Jewellers has made its presence felt both nationally and
De Beers Releases Q4 Production Report
London: De Beers reported that rough diamond sales volumes totaled 9.9 million carats (9.2 million carats on a consolidated basis) from three sales cycles, compared with 8.2 million carats (7.5 million carats on a consolidated basis) from the same number of sales cycles during the equivalent period in 2017. Fourth quarter rough sales revenues increased year on year as the
Arun Mehta Opens Innovation & Incubation Centre
Mumbai: The Founder and Chairman of Rosy Blue, Arun Mehta, widely considered to be the patriarch of the Indian gem & jewellery industry, today inaugurated the Innovation & Incubation Centre at the Indian Institute of Gem & Jewellery (IIGJ), Tardeo. The IIGJ is a project of The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC). The institute operates out of two
Russia to Chair KPCS in 2020
Moscow: Russia will chair the Kimberley Process (KP), an organization aiming to diminish the flow of conflict diamonds in the world market, in 2020, Russian Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev told Sputnik in an interview. “Russia has not chaired the Kimberley Process since 2005, and we have decided that it is time to fix this and put forward our candidacy.
Suresh Shah New VP of IDMA
Antwerp: With the wrap-up of the 36th World Diamond Congress, the International Diamond Manufacturers’ Association (IDMA) concluded its meetings with the election of its officers. Maxim Shkadov was unanimously re-elected for a second term as IDMA President and Ronnie VanderLinden and Stephane Fischler were re-elected as Secretary General and Treasurer, respectively. IDMA Vice President Edward Asscher, who was recently elected
Gold-Silver Price-Setting Methods May Change
London: The decades-old methods for determining the daily benchmark prices for gold and silver seem set to change—the result of unwelcome attention from regulators and class-action lawsuits. Currently, the price of both metals is set at a daily teleconference by a number of prominent multinational banks—four in the case of gold, and three in the case of silver. However, the
CIBJO Gives Sustainability Frame for Pearl Sector
Milan: CIBJO President Gaetano Cavalieri has presented an outline for sustainability in the cultured pearl sector, emphasizing that a comprehensive approach must be taken that addresses economic, environmental and social responsibility. He was speaking at the Sustainable Pearls Forum, which took place in Hong Kong on June 21. The cultured pearl industry provides an opportunity to introduce concepts that often
Gold Curb Relaxations on the Way…
New Delhi: The government of India has indicated that there is a need to ease norms for bullion imports to boost supplies and jewellery exports. “There is a need of rationalisation in (gold import) duty and (gold import) procedure….We have already made it clear that there is a need to look at the current gold import regime,” commerce secretary Rajeev
