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The 200-Day Test: Where the Bull Case for Gold and Silver Goes on Trial
Macro Snapshot: The week ending June 26 extended the precious metals selloff to a fifth consecutive week and pushed both gold and silver into the most important long-term technical zone of the broader uptrend: the 200-day exponential moving average. Three macro forces drove the decline, and they did so simultaneously. First, the US-Iran 60-day peace roadmap, formally signed in Switzerland on June 17, continued to remove the geopolitical risk premium that had supported the metals since the February conflict began.
The 200-Day Test: Where the Bull Case for Gold and Silver Goes on Trial
Macro Snapshot: The week ending June 26 extended the precious metals selloff to a fifth consecutive week and pushed both gold and silver into the most important long-term technical zone of the broader uptrend: the 200-day exponential moving average. Three macro forces drove the decline, and they did so simultaneously. First, the US-Iran 60-day peace roadmap, formally signed in Switzerland on June 17, continued to remove the geopolitical risk premium that had supported the metals since the February conflict began.
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India May Scrap Import Curbs on Gold-Silver Alloy
Mumbai: Officials of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the country’s finance ministry are in talks to scrap bulk import licenses for a gold-silver alloy used by domestic refiners, months after relaxing curbs on gold imports, it is learnt. Gold is India’s second-highest import in value terms, and a jump in imports widened the current account deficit in 2013,
Bitcoin Tech Used to Combat Diamond Fraud
London: A new fraud detection company called Everledger is utilizing Bitcoin blockchain technology to prevent insurance fraud. How will they do it? The company focuses on 40 metadata points in addition to the 4Cs (color, cut, clarity and carat weight) that identify a diamond. Laboratory houses digitize a diamond on the basis of these parameters and Everledger then takes the
World’s 1st Electronic Exchange for Diamond Market
Singapore: Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange Pte Ltd (SDiX) announced recently the upcoming launch of the world’s first commodities exchange in physically settled diamonds in Singapore, targeted to go ‘live’ in September 2015. The SDiX platform, the first of its kind globally, will utilize proven exchange technology to create a new marketplace for the global diamond trade, and is designed to
Namibia Establishing New Sales-Marketing Co.
Windhoek: Namibia is setting up new diamond sales and marketing company, according to reports in the Namibian press. The new company is called /Nore /Uis and was revealed by the country’s Minister of Mines and Energy Obed Kandjoze, reported New Era. The move follows a change in the sales and marketing agreement between the Namibian government and De Beers, which
India May Scrap Import Curbs on Gold-Silver Alloy
Mumbai: Officials of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the country’s finance ministry are in talks to scrap bulk import licenses for a gold-silver alloy used by domestic refiners, months after relaxing curbs on gold imports, it is learnt. Gold is India’s second-highest import in value terms, and a jump in imports widened the current account deficit in 2013,
Bitcoin Tech Used to Combat Diamond Fraud
London: A new fraud detection company called Everledger is utilizing Bitcoin blockchain technology to prevent insurance fraud. How will they do it? The company focuses on 40 metadata points in addition to the 4Cs (color, cut, clarity and carat weight) that identify a diamond. Laboratory houses digitize a diamond on the basis of these parameters and Everledger then takes the
World’s 1st Electronic Exchange for Diamond Market
Singapore: Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange Pte Ltd (SDiX) announced recently the upcoming launch of the world’s first commodities exchange in physically settled diamonds in Singapore, targeted to go ‘live’ in September 2015. The SDiX platform, the first of its kind globally, will utilize proven exchange technology to create a new marketplace for the global diamond trade, and is designed to
Namibia Establishing New Sales-Marketing Co.
Windhoek: Namibia is setting up new diamond sales and marketing company, according to reports in the Namibian press. The new company is called /Nore /Uis and was revealed by the country’s Minister of Mines and Energy Obed Kandjoze, reported New Era. The move follows a change in the sales and marketing agreement between the Namibian government and De Beers, which
