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

Read More »

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

Read More »

Top News

GJEPC Welcomes India’s Role as KP Chair

Mumbai: The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), the nodal agency for the Kimberley Process (KP) in India, welcomes India’s election as Chair of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) for 2026. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, a UN-mandated initiative, is the only global mechanism governing international trade in rough diamonds, aimed at preventing conflict diamonds from entering legitimate

Read More »

India New Zealand FTA to Benefit G&J Industry

Mumbai: India and New Zealand recently concluded a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that offers significant duty-free access for Indian exports, but Gems & Jewellery (G&J) are listed among the sensitive sectors excluded from immediate zero-duty benefits under the FTA, with India protecting these products, alongside dairy, sugar, and metals, from immediate tariff cuts, though the overall deal aims to boost labour-intensive exports like textiles,

Read More »

India’s G&J Exports Recover During April-Nov 2025

Mumbai: India’s gem and jewellery (G&J) exports showed clear signs of stabilization and recovery during April-November 2025, supported by improving global demand conditions and strong performance across diversified international markets. Total exports for the period rose marginally by 0.07% year-on-year to $18.87 billion, compared to $18.85 billion in the corresponding period last year, underscoring the sector’s resilience amid a challenging

Read More »

How Many Years will the Diamonds Reserves Last?

Mumbai: Global economically viable diamond reserves are estimated at about 1.8 billion carats. At the current annual production level of roughly 90 million carats, these reserves are expected to sustain the market for around 20 years. The estimate was shared by Sergey Takhiev, Head of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at Alrosa. More than half of the world’s diamond reserves

Read More »

Zim Diamond Production Plummets 76%

Harare: In a further blow to the Zimbabwean diamond industry, the latest figures show that the country’s diamond production declined by 76 percent since the government’s acquisition of the Marange fields, according to a report in the Daily News. Zimbabwe’s central bank released information that showed diamond output declined to 152,475 carats in the first quarter of the year, compared

Read More »

Foreign Buyers Invited to Blue & White Fair

Ramat Gan: The Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) is extending a special invitation to buyers from abroad to participate in the local Blue & White Diamond Fair taking place on August 2, 2016 on the bourse trading floor. The Blue & White Fair, which was originally established as an internal event on a monthly basis, provides a marketplace for Israeli diamond

Read More »

Million Dollar Argyle Coin Sold within 48 Hours

Perth: Rio Tinto announced the sale of The Perth Mint’s Kimberley Treasure, the world’s first coin to feature a rare red diamond from its Argyle Diamond Mine in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia. The Kimberley Treasure, a million dollar coin crafted from one kilogram of 99.99% fine gold and featuring a radiant cut 0.54 carat Argyle red diamond,

Read More »

Lab Grown Diamonds Pose Threat to Melee

New York: Lab-grown diamonds will probably develop into a niche that would put pressure on the prices of melee diamonds in the long term, according to research by Morgan Stanley. The investment bank expects lab-grown diamonds to take 15 percent share of the melee market and 7.5 percent share of the larger-gems space. This means lab-grown production will affect melee

Read More »

Latest Videos