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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GJSCI to Partner with Ind. Bodies, Training Institutes

Mumbai: The Gem & Jewellery Skill Council of India (GJSCI) will reach out to industry bodies in traditional jewellery manufacturing clusters as well as to training institutes already offering courses in the field during the next phase of its growth and development, the new GJSCI Chairman Sanjay A. Kothari has said.

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Ali Pastorini to Visit 2nd India Diamond Week

Mumbai: Ali Pastorini, an entrepreneur in the sector who is partner of the jewelery brand Del Lima and President of the international group Mujeres Brillantes will be attending the Second Edition of India Diamond Week, which will take place from October 23 to 25 in Mumbai. The purpose of the visit is to look closely at the phenomenal growth of

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Platinum Evara Launches New TVC Featuring Revathy

Mumbai: The bond between a mother and daughter is indefinable. They areunited through threads of nurturance, compassion and unconditional love. Todayhowever, the curve of this relationship has evolved – the traditional power equation has collapsed, mothers and daughters are friends first. There is an intimacy that perhaps didn’t exist in that relationship earlier, since it was governed by roles. Conceptualized and developed by Metal

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Zimbabwe Launches Online Diamond Sales Platform

Harare: The Zimbabwean government has launched the Zimbabwe Electronic Diamond Trading System – an online diamond sales platform “in a bid to promote transparency and the ease of doing business”, according to a report at the Herald newspaper. Mines minister Winston Chitando is quoted as saying that the system “would ensure that the sale of diamonds through the Minerals Marketing

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CIBJO Releases Colored Stone Special Report

Milan: With fewer than five weeks to go to the opening of the 2014 CIBJO Congress in Moscow on May 19, 2014, the fourth of the CIBJO commissions Special Reports has been released, as stated in a press brief. Prepared by the CIBJO Colored Stone Commission, headed by Nilam Alawdeen, the report focusses on the proper disclosure of gemstone treatments and

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Indias Silver Jewellery Exports Double

Mumbai: A shortage of gold as a raw material and the consequent decline in gold jewellery exports appears to have opened up new avenues of growth for silver jewellery in India, reports Mineweb. Indias silver jewellery exports rose 45.33% to $84.1 million in February 2014, and jumped 89% in the 11-month period to $1.35 billion, according to data from the Gem

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AGL Celebrates Five Years under New Management

New York, 15th April: American Gemological Laboratories (AGL), a provider of high-quality gemstone analysis and reporting is celebrating its five-year anniversary under the stewardship of Christopher P. Smith. “Five years ago, AGL was re-privatized during one of the most difficult periods the US and world financial markets have experienced in recent decades. AGL, however, had a good reputation and we did

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Gold Smuggling Arrests Jump 750% YoY in India

Mumbai, 14th April: While cases of gold smuggling in India have jumped 265% from 40 in 2012-13 to 146 in 2013-14, the number of people arrested has shot up by 750%, from 30 in 2012-13 to 255 in 2013-14, data from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence shows, according to a report published in Mineweb. “Gold imports through the legal channel have

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