Despite Collapsing Hike Odds, Rising Yields Kept Indian Gold, Silver Below Their Floors

Snap Shot: Most of the damage in the week ending 2 October landed before the good news arrived, and the good news then failed to repair it. August core PCE inflation, released on 30 September, rose 3.0% from a year earlier against expectations of 3.3%, helped partly by methodology changes at the Bureau of Economic Analysis. September payrolls on 2 October then added just 29,000 jobs against forecasts near 90,000, with unemployment at 4.2% and August revised down to 133,000

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Despite Collapsing Hike Odds, Rising Yields Kept Indian Gold, Silver Below Their Floors

Snap Shot: Most of the damage in the week ending 2 October landed before the good news arrived, and the good news then failed to repair it. August core PCE inflation, released on 30 September, rose 3.0% from a year earlier against expectations of 3.3%, helped partly by methodology changes at the Bureau of Economic Analysis. September payrolls on 2 October then added just 29,000 jobs against forecasts near 90,000, with unemployment at 4.2% and August revised down to 133,000

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Global Platinum Jewellery Market Rebounds

Mumbai: Platinum Guild International (PGI), a worldwide marketing organization dedicated to creating, expanding, and strengthening consumer and trade markets for platinum jewellery, has shared its findings from its Platinum Jewellery Business Review update for Q1 2025, highlighting strong growth across key global markets, led by a significant recovery in China. Platinum jewellery is seeing renewed global momentum, with China leading

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India not to Ask Nirav Modi About PNB Scam

London: Ahead of the extradition hearing of fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi at Westminster Court, India has assured the United Kingdom that the Fugitive Economic Offender will not be “questioned” in connection with the $2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case. A written assurance or sovereign guarantee to this effect has been submitted to the UK authorities through the Crown

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De Beers Launches Desert Diamonds Beacon

London: De Beers Group has announced the consumer launch of Desert diamonds, the first new ‘beacon’ it has developed in over a decade, supported by its largest category marketing investment in more than ten years. A De Beers beacon is a celebration of natural diamonds that is manifested through a jewelry concept designed to galvanize the industry around a central

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Amit Pratihari Named MD, GIA India Laboratory 

Mumbai: The board of directors of GIA India Laboratory Pvt. Ltd. (GIA India) has appointed Amit Pratihari as managing director, responsible for all aspects of GIA India’s gemological laboratories in Mumbai and Surat, as well as the GIA India school in Mumbai. Reporting to the board of directors of GIA India, he assumed his responsibilities on October 1. Amit’s deep experience

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Rio Urges Speedy Clearance for Bunder Project

New Delhi: Sam Walsh, CEO of mining giant Rio Tinto has urged the Indian government to ensure speedy clearance to the Bunder diamond mining project in Madhya Pradesh according to media reports. He was speaking to the press during a recent visit to Delhi. Walsh said that he has had three rounds of discussions with the Indian government during the

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Three Diamond Bourses to Cooperate With IDW

Ramat Gan: Members of three of the world’s leading diamond bourses will find themselves together on the trading floor of the Israel Diamond Exchange at the upcoming International Diamond Week (IDW) in Israel in February. Originally scheduled for past August, the winter edition of the event will gather — for the first time since the Israel Diamond Exchange instituted the

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Gem-A Take the Party to Tucson

London: The Gemmological Association of Great Britain (Gem-A) has announced its upcoming plans for the Tucson Gem, Mineral and Fossil Showcase from the 1 – 15 February. Over the course of the two week showcase Gem-A plans to introduce jewellers, gemmologists and mineralogists to their range of professional educational courses, membership services, instruments and publications through a number of exhibitions,

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Chow Tai Fook's 3Q Sales -10%

Beijing: Chow Tai Fook reported that group sales fell 10 percent year on year for the third quarter that ended on December 31, according to preliminary estimates that did not include hard totals. Same-store sales fell 18 percent, with a pronounced decline of 21 percent in Hong Kong and Macau and a 15 percent drop in Mainland China. Gem-set jewelry

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