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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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Two Indian Companies in Financial Problem
Mumbai: The Mumbai and Antwerp diamond sectors are reportedly on tenterhooks after two leading Indian companies announced financial problems. Manufacturer and exporter Ankur Diamonds has filed for bankruptcy in a Belgian court after the owners were unable to repay bank loans last week, according to The Times of India. Meanwhile, Interjewels Pvt Ltd owes substantial amounts to banks and private
India Bans Gold Imports from S. Korea
New Delhi: After a surge in import of gold from South Korea, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) in the commerce ministry on Friday banned duty free imports of the yellow metal from the country. Under the India-South Korea free trade agreement that came into force in 2010, India has allowed duty free import of gold and silver items.
Opportunity to Create Demand For Platinum
Johannesburg: The South African platinum industry has been investing in platinum jewellery for more than 45 years through the Platinum Guild International (PGI), which has turned platinum jewellery into an amazing South African asset, reports Mining Weekly Online. Of all the platinum demand levers, platinum in jewellery is the one that can be activated the quickest and the most directly,
IDE Pres. Praises Sale of R2Net to Signet
Ramat Gan, Israel, August 25, 2017: Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) President Yoram Dvash praised the impending sale of R2Net, owner of online jewellery retailer James Allen, to Signet Jewellers. R2Net has important ties to the Israeli Diamond Industry. Originally founded by Israeli diamond trader Oded Edelman as a trading network for diamonds, it has become under the brands James Allen
Diamond Mfrg. Industry Fighting for Survival: IDMA
Antwerp: “Diamond manufacturers worldwide are fighting for their survival. They are caught between – and battered by – the proverbial hammer, a rough diamond supply system that is foul and faulty – and the anvil, a vertically integrated financial structure that basically continues to bleed them,” Maxim Shkadov, president of the International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA), the representative body of
Gold Prices Unlikely to Settle due to Iraq Tensions
Mumbai: With the turmoil in Ukraine almost gone from the headlines, gold’s status as a hard asset and storer of wealth in times of trouble lost some of its shine. But as Iraq spirals into all-out war and the US looks in danger of being pulled back into a conflict it has spent the last six years extricating itself from,
122.52 Carat Blue Diamond Found at Cullinan
Johannesburg: In what is shaping up to be one of most the amazing diamond finds in recent times, a 122.52 ct. blue diamond—the size of a walnut—has been discovered at the Cullinan mine in South Africa, said mine owner Petra Diamonds. Blue diamonds are ultrarare, as are stones weighing more than 100 cts.—making this, as Petra puts it, a “truly
KP Should Focus on Conflict-Torn Regions only
Shanghai: The newly elected president of the World Diamond Council (WDC) Edward Asscher, put a chill Tuesday on the movement to expand the scope of the Kimberley Process and so cover general human rights abuses, stating the trade body should focus exclusively on diamonds proceeding from conflict zones. Speaking at the Intercessional Meeting of the Kimberley Process in Shanghai, Asscher
