Why Did Gold & Silver Break Down Just as Fed Hike Bets Faded

Macro Snapshot: The rate backdrop eased during the week ending 23 October, which makes the metals’ slide harder to explain. CME FedWatch odds of a hike at the 27 to 28 October FOMC meeting had settled near one in three on 14 October, after the 3.7% September CPI print, and stood at 9.4% by 23 October. December hike odds slipped from about 90% to close to 80%. The 10-year Treasury yield closed at 5.00% against 5.09% a week earlier, and

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Why Did Gold & Silver Break Down Just as Fed Hike Bets Faded

Macro Snapshot: The rate backdrop eased during the week ending 23 October, which makes the metals’ slide harder to explain. CME FedWatch odds of a hike at the 27 to 28 October FOMC meeting had settled near one in three on 14 October, after the 3.7% September CPI print, and stood at 9.4% by 23 October. December hike odds slipped from about 90% to close to 80%. The 10-year Treasury yield closed at 5.00% against 5.09% a week earlier, and

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ALROSA Sales Go Down in April

Moscow: Alrosa’s sales fell in April and for the first four months of the year as the Russian miner sold a larger volume of low-value rough diamonds than it did last year. Rough sales declined to $310.2 million in April, the company reported Wednesday. This represented a 45% slide from a year ago, according to Thursday estimates from VTB Capital.

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Reena Ahluwalia Donates Paintings to Benefit JFC

Las Vegas: Noted jewellery designer and artist Reena Ahluwalia has donated two original, museum quality, painting to be auctioned at the Jewelers for Children (JFC) Facets of Hope event in Las Vegas, NV.  The paintings, Portal of Empowerment and Radiate Brilliance , show highly nuanced, hyper-realistic diamonds with ultra-magnified facets. Ahluwalia is a multiple award-winning Canadian Jewellery designer, diamond painter

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Palladium Set to Overtake Platinum: GFMS

Johannesburg: The palladium price is poised to exceed the platinum price for the first time since 2001, Thomson Reuters said on Tuesday with the publication of its GFMS Platinum Group Metals Survey 2017, according to a report published in miningweekly.com. The price gap between platinum and palladium – which averaged just over $1 000/oz between 2007 and 2012 – is

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Jeweller Held for Rs. 2,000-Crore Loan Fraud

Mumbai: The CBI arrested on Monday the chairman of a prominent Kolkata-based jewellery house, Nillesh Parekh for allegedly cheating a consortium of 25 banks led by the State Bank of India of Rs 2,223 crore, according to media reports. He was arrested from the Mumbai airport upon his return from Dubai. Parekh had fled India after the CBI registered a

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HRD Antwerp Opens New Office & Lab in Dubai

Dubai: HRD Antwerp, Europe’s leading authority in diamond and jewellery grading and a subsidiary of the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC), has officially opened its new office and laboratory in Almas Tower, Jumeirah Lakes Towers,Dubai. The opening took place in the presence of H.E. Mr Rik Van Droogenbroeck, Ambassador of Belgium to the United Arab Emirates, and HRD Antwerp’s executive

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Sky Gold & Diamonds Reports 90% Growth in Q2

Mumbai: Sky Gold & Diamonds has reported a big growth in its net profit and revenue for the Q2 of FY27. The Company posted a consolidated net profit of Rs. 127.87 crore in the quarter ended September 2026, registering growth of 90.9% from Rs 66.99 crore in the year-ago period. Q2FY27 and H1FY27 Financial Highlights (Consolidated) (All figures in ₹

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Unlocking Digital Gold’s US$ 700bn Opportunity

Las Vegas: The digital gold market, worth US$45–55bn today, could unlock up to US$700bn in latent demand, according to new research from World Gold Council (WGC) and Boston Consulting Group. The report points to substantial untapped appetite among retail investors, with nearly nine in ten surveyed saying they would consider digital gold under the right conditions. The US$700bn opportunity represents

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Construction of India Jewellery Park, Mumbai Begins

Navi Mumbai: The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) yesterday marked a historic milestone in the development of India Jewellery Park Mumbai (IJPM) with the commencement of construction at Mahape, Navi Mumbai. The ceremony marks the transition of this long-cherished industry vision into the construction phase, bringing India’s ambition to establish a world-class, integrated jewellery manufacturing hub a significant

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