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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2nd Platinum BSM Begins from 5th July in Chennai

Mumbai: After the success of the first edition of the ‘Platinum Buyer-Seller Meet’ (BSM), Platinum Guild International (PGI) is back with its second edition. The 2nd edition of the Platinum Buyer seller meet will be held in Chennai from 5th to 7th July 2017 exclusively for the manufactures & retailers of Platinum Jewellery in India. The agenda of the meet

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KP Chair Held Meeting with GJEPC

Mumbai: The Chair of the Kimberley Process (KP), Mr. Robert Owen-Jones, Assistant Secretary, Australian Competitiveness Branch Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade visited India last week to acquaint himself with the workings of the Indian diamond industry and the system for implementing the KP Certification Scheme. In Mumbai, Mr Owens met a delegation of India’s Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion

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Merlin Finds Two Pink Diamonds in Australia

Perth: Merlin Diamonds recovered two pink diamonds at its mine in Australia’s Northern Territory, the company said Monday. While extremely small at 0.039 carats and 0.025 carats, the rough stones indicate the possibility of finding further pink diamonds at the Merlin mine, according to a statement by the company. The miner discovered a 0.70-carat pink diamond earlier this year —

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Win A Diamond Contest by HRD Antwerp

Antwerp: HRD Antwerp has organized from Monday July 3 to Sunday July 9, a Summer Contest on its Social Media platforms to discover what a diamond symbolizes for online community. “To participate, post an original photo or video about what a diamond symbolizes for you on your public Instagram account, and make us dream away with you,” says a press

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RBI to Swap Gold to Improve Reserves Quality

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said yesterday that it had sought quotes from banks to swap gold in its own vaults for international-standard gold, aiming to improve the management of its reserves. The RBI sources said that the measure would “standardize the gold available with RBI in India with respect to international standards” and the gold acquired would

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6,000-Gram Gold “Devil’s Ear” Unearthed in Russia

Moscow: Russian miners have unearthed a scary-looking 6,664-gram piece of gold they labeled the “Devil’s Ear” on Friday the 13th. According to the official publication of the local government, workers at the Ukhagan mine in the Bodaybinsky district of Siberia found the piece, the largest nugget ever found in the area, on June 13, the eve of the full moon.

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India May Increase Duty on Synthetics to 10%

New Delhi: The government may increase the import duty on man-made diamonds to 10 per cent in order to remove the price differential with natural diamonds which encourages some jewellers to “cheat the customers”, reports The Indian Express. Simultaneously, it could abolish the customs duty on cut and polished gem stones as these can be re-exported at higher value. The

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Pre-Budget Recommendations by GJF

Mumbai: The All India Gems and Jewellery Trade Federation (GJF), the national trade federation for the promotion and growth of trade in Gems and Jewellery (G&J) sector across India, has urged Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley to abolish 80:20 rule for gold import, which allows only the nominated agencies to import gold on the condition that 20 per cent

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