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Brent Touched $100, the 10-Year Hit a Seven-Month High, and Both Metals Still Gained
Macro Snapshot: The week ending July 24 was one of the most volatile macro weeks of 2026, and the most significant feature was not what moved, but what did not. Oil spiked, yields surged to their highest since January 2025, and the conflict between the US and Iran escalated to its most intense phase since the February strikes. Gold and silver gained on the week. That resilience at the bottom of a multi-week correction, against headwinds that should have pushed
Brent Touched $100, the 10-Year Hit a Seven-Month High, and Both Metals Still Gained
Macro Snapshot: The week ending July 24 was one of the most volatile macro weeks of 2026, and the most significant feature was not what moved, but what did not. Oil spiked, yields surged to their highest since January 2025, and the conflict between the US and Iran escalated to its most intense phase since the February strikes. Gold and silver gained on the week. That resilience at the bottom of a multi-week correction, against headwinds that should have pushed
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Varda Shine Joins Miner Lonmin
London: Varda Shine, who previously headed the Diamond Trading Company of De Beers, has joined the board of platinum miner Lonmin as an independent nonexecutive director. In addition to running the DTC, Shine, a British national, also served as nonexecutive chairperson of DTC Botswana, a 50-50 split between De Beers and the Botswana government, and as nonexecutive chairperson of Namibia
De Beers February Sight Estimated at $550M
Gaborone: De Beers February sight closed with an estimated value of $550 million and rough diamond prices declined an estimated 2 percent to 3 percent, on average. Minor improvements in assortment qualities were also reported. Sightholders said deferrals were lower than they had been in January, but still remained relatively high, reports Rapaport. Notably, De Beers continued to allow sightholders
GIA & De Beers to Speak on Synthetic Diamonds
Basel: The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) and De Beers Technologies U.K. will host a panel of speakers on the topic of synthetic diamonds during GIA GemFest Basel 2015 on Sunday, March 22 at the Congress Center Basel in Switzerland. Tom Moses, the executive vice president and chief laboratory and research officer for GIA, will moderate the discussion with Dr.
Israel to Host the Biennial Presidents’ Meeting
Tel Aviv: The Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) and the Israel Diamond Manufacturers Association will host the biennial Presidents’ Meeting of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) and the International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA) in Israel, at the Tel Aviv Hilton Hotel, June 14-16, 2015. During the two-and-a-half-day event, the leaders of the 30 diamond bourses affiliated to the WFDB,
Varda Shine Joins Miner Lonmin
London: Varda Shine, who previously headed the Diamond Trading Company of De Beers, has joined the board of platinum miner Lonmin as an independent nonexecutive director. In addition to running the DTC, Shine, a British national, also served as nonexecutive chairperson of DTC Botswana, a 50-50 split between De Beers and the Botswana government, and as nonexecutive chairperson of Namibia
De Beers February Sight Estimated at $550M
Gaborone: De Beers February sight closed with an estimated value of $550 million and rough diamond prices declined an estimated 2 percent to 3 percent, on average. Minor improvements in assortment qualities were also reported. Sightholders said deferrals were lower than they had been in January, but still remained relatively high, reports Rapaport. Notably, De Beers continued to allow sightholders
GIA & De Beers to Speak on Synthetic Diamonds
Basel: The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) and De Beers Technologies U.K. will host a panel of speakers on the topic of synthetic diamonds during GIA GemFest Basel 2015 on Sunday, March 22 at the Congress Center Basel in Switzerland. Tom Moses, the executive vice president and chief laboratory and research officer for GIA, will moderate the discussion with Dr.
Israel to Host the Biennial Presidents’ Meeting
Tel Aviv: The Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) and the Israel Diamond Manufacturers Association will host the biennial Presidents’ Meeting of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) and the International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA) in Israel, at the Tel Aviv Hilton Hotel, June 14-16, 2015. During the two-and-a-half-day event, the leaders of the 30 diamond bourses affiliated to the WFDB,
