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Two Weeks, Two Divergences, One Mechanism: The Rupee is Rewriting Indian Gold
Macro Snapshot: Two weeks ago, the rupee crisis pushed MCX gold up 3.9% while COMEX gold fell 3.6%. The week ending May 29 produced the exact mirror image: COMEX gold rose 1.5% while MCX gold fell 2.0%. Same mechanism, opposite direction. The rupee’s path through the week tells the full story. The intra-week range of 95.05 to 96.26, roughly 1.2%, is what explains why MCX prices fell while COMEX prices rose. But US and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative agreement

Two Weeks, Two Divergences, One Mechanism: The Rupee is Rewriting Indian Gold
Macro Snapshot: Two weeks ago, the rupee crisis pushed MCX gold up 3.9% while COMEX gold fell 3.6%. The week ending May 29 produced the exact mirror image: COMEX gold rose 1.5% while MCX gold fell 2.0%. Same mechanism, opposite direction. The rupee’s path through the week tells the full story. The intra-week range of 95.05 to 96.26, roughly 1.2%, is what explains why MCX prices fell while COMEX prices rose. But US and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative agreement
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Rough Prices May See 5-10% Correction
Mumbai: Even as diamond companies are starved of funds, with Antwerp Diamond Bank (ADB) shutting shop in India and Standard Chartered Bank reducing exposure, a correction in the prices of rough and polished diamonds is likely, reports Business Standard. Vipul Shah, chairman of the Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), said, “The prices of both rough and polished diamonds

Gem Sells Letšeng’s 198 Ct Diamond For $10.6m
London: Gem Diamonds has racked-in $10.6 million from the sale of a 198 ct white diamond recovered end of July from its 70 percent-owned Letšeng mine, in Lesotho. It said in a brief statement emailed to Rough & Polished that the Type II, D colour diamond attracted a price of $53 746/ct. “The sale of this large, high-quality white diamond

Buddha Diamond Cut to be Exhibited at ADTF
Antwerp: Diamond manufacturers are always looking for ways to innovate and bring new and better products into the market. One of the roads well-travelled toward innovation is the introduction of a new diamond shape or cut. But while Antwerp has seen its share of newly introduced modified cuts, it is not often that we encounter something unusual such as the

Statement by E.G.L. Platinum
Ramat Gan: Menahem Sevdermish and Avi Meirom, the founding owners of the EGL Platinum laboratory, have issued the following statement in response to the RapNet and Polygon press releases, respectively distributed on September 9 and 15, 2014, regarding the delisting of EGL diamond certificates. EGL Platinum supports RapNet’s and Polygon’s intentions to sanction any laboratory that issues over-graded certification, undermining

Rough Prices May See 5-10% Correction
Mumbai: Even as diamond companies are starved of funds, with Antwerp Diamond Bank (ADB) shutting shop in India and Standard Chartered Bank reducing exposure, a correction in the prices of rough and polished diamonds is likely, reports Business Standard. Vipul Shah, chairman of the Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), said, “The prices of both rough and polished diamonds

Gem Sells Letšeng’s 198 Ct Diamond For $10.6m
London: Gem Diamonds has racked-in $10.6 million from the sale of a 198 ct white diamond recovered end of July from its 70 percent-owned Letšeng mine, in Lesotho. It said in a brief statement emailed to Rough & Polished that the Type II, D colour diamond attracted a price of $53 746/ct. “The sale of this large, high-quality white diamond

Buddha Diamond Cut to be Exhibited at ADTF
Antwerp: Diamond manufacturers are always looking for ways to innovate and bring new and better products into the market. One of the roads well-travelled toward innovation is the introduction of a new diamond shape or cut. But while Antwerp has seen its share of newly introduced modified cuts, it is not often that we encounter something unusual such as the

Statement by E.G.L. Platinum
Ramat Gan: Menahem Sevdermish and Avi Meirom, the founding owners of the EGL Platinum laboratory, have issued the following statement in response to the RapNet and Polygon press releases, respectively distributed on September 9 and 15, 2014, regarding the delisting of EGL diamond certificates. EGL Platinum supports RapNet’s and Polygon’s intentions to sanction any laboratory that issues over-graded certification, undermining