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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Christie's Geneva Takes Magnificent Jewels on Tour

Geneva: Christie’s upcoming auction of Magnificent Jewels will take place on May 17 at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues. Consisting of approximately 250 exceptional jewels, it will include a thematic section comprising 30 exceptional pieces from Italian makers, important gem stones, coloured diamonds and signed jewels. Prior to the auction, a selection of pieces will go on tour to

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Baselworld Exhibition Shortened by Two Days

Basel: The Baselworld exhibition will be two days shorter in 2018 after fewer buyers and exhibitors attended this year’s show. A total of 106,000 buyers took part in the event which ended Thursday, down 4% from the previous year, the show’s organizers reported. The number of exhibitors fell 13% to 1,300, according to National Jeweler. Organizers said they were responding

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LDB Appoints Ethical Issues Advisor

London: The London Diamond Bourse (LDB) has appointed Katherine Chappell as its Special Advisor for Ethical Issues to its Council of Management. Chappell is a longstanding member of London Diamond Bourse and a specialist in fair trade principles. Victoria McKay, the LDB’s Chief Operating Officer, commented, “Kathy’s knowledge of the gemstone and diamond industry is second to none with particular

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Dominion Sees More Life in Diavik Mine

Toronto: Dominion Diamond Corporation has extended the life span of its jointly owned Diavik mine by two years and hiked its estimate of the project’s future production. The deposit in Canada’s Northwest Territories will last until 2025, compared with a projection of 2023 given in March 2015, the miner said Friday. As a result, estimated output from now till the

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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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