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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Bharat Diamond Week Getting Good Response

Mumbai: The Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) in Mumbai says more than 300 visitors from India and overseas have already registered for the second edition of the Bharat Diamond Week at the bourse, to take place from October 8-10. Hundreds more buyers are expected to register in the countdown to the expanded polished diamond fair. The inaugural show, held from April

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De Beers Completes Acquisition of Peregrine Diamonds

Toronto: De Beers Group announced the completion of the previously announced Plan of Arrangement pursuant to which De Beers Canada has acquired all of the outstanding securities of Peregrine Diamonds Ltd (“Peregrine”) at a purchase price of C$0.24 per share, for a total cash consideration of C$107 million. The acquisition includes the high quality Chidliak diamond resource located in Canada’s

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Largest Fancy Purplish Red Diamond by Rio Tinto

Mumbai: Rio Tinto’s iconic Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender is being showcased to connoisseurs and collectors from across Asia in Hong Kong. Headlining the 2018 collection of 63 pink, red and violet diamonds is The Argyle Muse™, a 2.28 carat polished oval diamond, the largest purplish red diamond ever offered at Tender. With an unrivalled potency of colour The Argyle Muse™

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94 Indian Cos Participating in HK Jewellery & Gem Fair

Mumbai: India Pavilion at the September Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair, would be represented by 94 leading Indian manufacturers/exhibitors showcasing their strength and skill in manufacturing world class gems and jewellery. Hong Kong has been the largest export market for the Indian Gem & Jewellery industry, and this platform has provided the requisite opportunity to take its exports further over the

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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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