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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NDMC to be Formed in Surat Also

Mumbai: The Diamond Detection Expo & Symposium (DDES) 2015 opened at the BDB today with Praveenshankar Pandya, Chairman GJEPC and Anoop Mehta, President BDB strongly reiterating that the Indian diamond industry stood firmly committed to taking all steps necessary to prevent undisclosed mixing and establish separate footprints for natural and synthetic diamonds as this would help maintain consumer confidence in

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Kalyan Jewellers Supports Hsg. for Unprivileged

Thrissur: Kalyan Jewellers, India’s leading and trusted jewellery brand has pledged its support for the Indian Government’s Housing for All: Mission 2022programme. Mr. T.S. Kalyanaraman, Chairman and Managing Director of Kalyan Jewellers met Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi, and shared Kalyan Jewellers’ endeavour to support housing for the underprivileged, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility. Kalyan

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Dominion’s 3Q Profit -90% As Ekati Margins Slump

Toronto: Dominion Diamond Corporation reported a 90 percent drop in profit year on year to $3.4 million in the third quarter that ended on October 31, 2015 as margins declined at the company’s Canadian mines, reports Rapaport. Overall revenue declined 35 percent, mainly due to a large drop in the average price per carat of sales from the Ekati Diamond

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Rio Tinto’s Bunder Project Faces New Hurdles

New Delhi: Global mining giant Rio Tinto’s Rs 2,200 crore project to mine diamonds in MP’s Chhatarpur district has hit a green roadblock though it has the support of the state government, reports The Economic Times. The project that involves diversion of near 1000 hectares of dense forests to yield possibly a diamond deposit of 34.2 million carat value was

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Russia-China Plan to Establish a Joint Bourse

Moscow: Russia and China plan to establish a joint bourse for trading in precious and semi-precious stones, the group of companies Karat’s CEO Konstantin Bunin said, according to ITAR-TASS. The company has received a proposal from the Beijing Gold Exchange (CBGE) and the Beijing Financial Asset Exchange (CFAE) to create a trading floor for precious stones following the example of

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Rockwell Ups Q2 Diamond Output

Vancouver: Rockwell Diamonds increased the volumes of gravel processed from its operations in South Africa by 57 percent to 1.4-million cubic metres during the quarter ended August 31, resulting in a 37 percent increase in output to 9,581 ct. The company’s chief executive James Campbell said the second-quarter production results revealed continued benefits flowing from the group’s focus on its

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De Beers first to Operationalize SQUID System

Gaborone: De Beers, owned by Anglo American is first in the world to operationalize airborne magnetic SQUID system-the Super Conducting Quantum Interference Device-for the faster execution of work programmes and significantly reducing the mining exploration costs. This Full Tensor Airborne Magnetic SQUID system could locate kimberlite deposits through looking at changes to magnetic fields. This hi-tech system has a very

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GJEPC’s Annual Awards on 10th October

Mumbai: The jury of the upcoming 41st Indian Gem & Jewellery Awards, met yesterday in Mumbai to finalize the names of the winners in all the categories. The awards ceremony will be held in Mumbai at Jamshedji Bhabha Theatre, NCPA on 10th October 2014. The jury members, who selected the winners include: Smt. Nirupa Bhatt, Managing Director (India & ME),

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