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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First Texas-Israel Diamond Show in September

Ramat Gan: This fall strategic cooperation between the Texas Jewelers Association (TJA) and the Israel Diamond Institute (IDI) will produce the first Texas-Israel Diamond Show in San Antonio from September 29 – 30, 2014. This is the first time that jewelers in Texas and surrounding states will be offered the opportunity to buy diamonds directly from the source. The unique

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India Hikes Import Tariff Value on Gold, Silver

New Delhi: The Indian government yesterday hiked import tariff value on gold and silver to USD 411 per 10 grams and USD 632 per kg as global prices have increased in the wake of escalating violence in Iraq. In the first fortnight of this month, tariff value on imported gold stood at USD 408 per 10 grams and silver at

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De Beers June Sight Estimated at $640M

Gaborone: The De Beers June sight closed with an estimated value of $640 million as demand for rough diamonds remained firm. Prices and assortments were largely unchanged from the previous sight, although sightholders reported minor price adjustments on select boxes. There was ex-plan supplied – rough in excess of sightholders’ initial application for goods – as demand rose during sight

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Zimbabwe's Proposed Marange Restructuring Stalled

Harare: Marange diamond miner Anjin Investments Ltd. has reportedly stalled the Zimbabwe government’s intended consolidation of Marange diamond companies. As of last week, Anjin’s top management, which recently visited Zimbabwe from China, was yet to meet with officials from the mines ministry to finalize evaluations of company’s operations. The ministry had originally projected briefing Anjin chairperson Jiang Qingder on the

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