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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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 Congress 2018 Set to Kick off on October 15

Milan: With the 2018 CIBJO Congress set to open in Bogotá, Colombia, in five days’ time, agendas and related documentation for the various sessions and meetings that will take place during the event are now available online. Contained in a Digital Binder, they can be downloaded from the dedicated congress website. The schedule of the CIBJO Congress includes a series

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ADB's Profit -31%, Interest Income +13%

Antwerp: The Antwerp Diamond Bank (ADB), a subsidiary of the KBC Bank, reported that its balance sheet fell 7 percent year on year to $2.4 billion (EUR 1.692 billion) in 2013, according to a report published on Rapaport. A selective credit issuing policy during the year held the bank’s number of debtors stable, and global net interest income rose almost

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Chow Tai Fook to Buy Hearts On Fire for $150 Mn

Beijing: Chinese retailer and manufacturer Chow Tai Fook is buying all the assets of diamond brand Hearts On Fire for $150 million in cash, reports jckonline. The company will be run as a standalone division under current management, a statement said, though there are plans to introduce the brand into Chow Tai Fook’s retail network in Hong Kong, China, Macau,

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Hardest Synthetic Diamond Ever Made Unveiled

Beijing: Chinese researchers from Yanshan University have created a synthetic diamond harder than its natural counterpart and able to withstand even hotter temperatures, according to a report published in mining.com The team, led by Yongjun Tian, says the new form of diamond could be used to make superior cutting or crushing tools, capable of operate under very extreme conditions. The

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'Presidents Forum' Formed

Antwerp: The heads of the jewellery and diamond industry’s four leading international representative bodies have agreed on Tuesday to establish “The Presidents Forum,” which is a joint consultative committee with its members being the presidents of each organization. Together they will discuss and formulate coordinated strategies and policies for the industry on important issues of common interest. Hosted by Dr.

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