Gold and Silver are Recovering Even as Yields Sit Near Multi-Year Highs. What are They Pricing?

Gold cleared its descending trendline and silver reclaimed its 200-day average as cooling US data reopened the case for a Fed hold. The long end of the curve, still near multi-year highs, has not yet agreed. Macro Snapshot: US data through the week ending August 14 softened the case for another Federal Reserve rate increase. July consumer prices (August 12) rose 0.1 percent on the month and 3.4 percent on the year, a tenth below June, with core at 2.5

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Gold and Silver are Recovering Even as Yields Sit Near Multi-Year Highs. What are They Pricing?

Gold cleared its descending trendline and silver reclaimed its 200-day average as cooling US data reopened the case for a Fed hold. The long end of the curve, still near multi-year highs, has not yet agreed. Macro Snapshot: US data through the week ending August 14 softened the case for another Federal Reserve rate increase. July consumer prices (August 12) rose 0.1 percent on the month and 3.4 percent on the year, a tenth below June, with core at 2.5

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Suresh Shah New VP of IDMA

Antwerp: With the wrap-up of the 36th World Diamond Congress, the International Diamond Manufacturers’ Association (IDMA) concluded its meetings with the election of its officers. Maxim Shkadov was unanimously re-elected for a second term as IDMA President and Ronnie VanderLinden and Stephane Fischler were re-elected as Secretary General and Treasurer, respectively. IDMA Vice President Edward Asscher, who was recently elected

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Gold-Silver Price-Setting Methods May Change

London: The decades-old methods for determining the daily benchmark prices for gold and silver seem set to change—the result of unwelcome attention from regulators and class-action lawsuits. Currently, the price of both metals is set at a daily teleconference by a number of prominent multinational banks—four in the case of gold, and three in the case of silver. However, the

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CIBJO Gives Sustainability Frame for Pearl Sector

Milan: CIBJO President Gaetano Cavalieri has presented an outline for sustainability in the cultured pearl sector, emphasizing that a comprehensive approach must be taken that addresses economic, environmental and social responsibility. He was speaking at the Sustainable Pearls Forum, which took place in Hong Kong on June 21. The cultured pearl industry provides an opportunity to introduce concepts that often

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Gold Curb Relaxations on the Way…

New Delhi: The government of India has indicated that there is a need to ease norms for bullion imports to boost supplies and jewellery exports. “There is a need of rationalisation in (gold import) duty and (gold import) procedure….We have already made it clear that there is a need to look at the current gold import regime,” commerce secretary Rajeev

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Suresh Shah New VP of IDMA

Antwerp: With the wrap-up of the 36th World Diamond Congress, the International Diamond Manufacturers’ Association (IDMA) concluded its meetings with the election of its officers. Maxim Shkadov was unanimously re-elected for a second term as IDMA President and Ronnie VanderLinden and Stephane Fischler were re-elected as Secretary General and Treasurer, respectively. IDMA Vice President Edward Asscher, who was recently elected

Read More »

Gold-Silver Price-Setting Methods May Change

London: The decades-old methods for determining the daily benchmark prices for gold and silver seem set to change—the result of unwelcome attention from regulators and class-action lawsuits. Currently, the price of both metals is set at a daily teleconference by a number of prominent multinational banks—four in the case of gold, and three in the case of silver. However, the

Read More »

CIBJO Gives Sustainability Frame for Pearl Sector

Milan: CIBJO President Gaetano Cavalieri has presented an outline for sustainability in the cultured pearl sector, emphasizing that a comprehensive approach must be taken that addresses economic, environmental and social responsibility. He was speaking at the Sustainable Pearls Forum, which took place in Hong Kong on June 21. The cultured pearl industry provides an opportunity to introduce concepts that often

Read More »

Gold Curb Relaxations on the Way…

New Delhi: The government of India has indicated that there is a need to ease norms for bullion imports to boost supplies and jewellery exports. “There is a need of rationalisation in (gold import) duty and (gold import) procedure….We have already made it clear that there is a need to look at the current gold import regime,” commerce secretary Rajeev

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