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Gold and Silver Ran 5% Despite a Hawkish Fed. Are Markets Repricing Fiscal Risk?
Macro Snapshot: The week ending August 21 was defined by two opposing forces. On Tuesday the 30-year Treasury yield touched 5.34%, its highest reading since 2007. On Wednesday the Treasury Department announced it would at least double its liquidity-support buybacks of 10 to 30-year securities; hours later, FOMC minutes from July 28 to 29 showed many participants judged further tightening would likely be necessary if inflation did not decline. On the same day, US federal debt crossed $40 trillion, only
Gold and Silver Ran 5% Despite a Hawkish Fed. Are Markets Repricing Fiscal Risk?
Macro Snapshot: The week ending August 21 was defined by two opposing forces. On Tuesday the 30-year Treasury yield touched 5.34%, its highest reading since 2007. On Wednesday the Treasury Department announced it would at least double its liquidity-support buybacks of 10 to 30-year securities; hours later, FOMC minutes from July 28 to 29 showed many participants judged further tightening would likely be necessary if inflation did not decline. On the same day, US federal debt crossed $40 trillion, only
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Gems One Introduces the Epic 101 Diamond Cut
New York: Gems One launched the Epic 101, a new branded special cut diamond that features 101 facets and employs what the company said was a faceting architecture designed to provide maximum light performance. The company is marketing the Epic 101 to authorized dealers to gain a competitive advantage in the bridal category. Anuj Jain, the president of Gems One,
Zim ‘Shocked’ with Accounts of Diamond Mines
Harare: Zimbabwe’s auditor general Mildred Chiri has revealed in her latest government audit report that she was “shocked” to find that most diamond mining companies in the Marange area have been operating “in the red” since 2013. NewsDay reports that the companies had their current liabilities exceeding current assets by a wide margin. On Marange Resources, auditors discovered that the
Alrosa to up investment in Angola
Moscow: Russian diamond mining giant Alrosa, which currently has a stake in Angola’s Catoca, is set to up its investment in the southern African country. Catoca produces about 75 percent of Angola’s gems. Angolan news agency, Angop quoted the company chief executive Andrey Zharkov as saying that Arosa would implement a series of projects in partnership with Endiama and other
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,
Gems One Introduces the Epic 101 Diamond Cut
New York: Gems One launched the Epic 101, a new branded special cut diamond that features 101 facets and employs what the company said was a faceting architecture designed to provide maximum light performance. The company is marketing the Epic 101 to authorized dealers to gain a competitive advantage in the bridal category. Anuj Jain, the president of Gems One,
Zim ‘Shocked’ with Accounts of Diamond Mines
Harare: Zimbabwe’s auditor general Mildred Chiri has revealed in her latest government audit report that she was “shocked” to find that most diamond mining companies in the Marange area have been operating “in the red” since 2013. NewsDay reports that the companies had their current liabilities exceeding current assets by a wide margin. On Marange Resources, auditors discovered that the
Alrosa to up investment in Angola
Moscow: Russian diamond mining giant Alrosa, which currently has a stake in Angola’s Catoca, is set to up its investment in the southern African country. Catoca produces about 75 percent of Angola’s gems. Angolan news agency, Angop quoted the company chief executive Andrey Zharkov as saying that Arosa would implement a series of projects in partnership with Endiama and other
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,
