The Tariff Lag Effect: Why MCX Prices are Still Below

The week ending May 22 was the digestion week. After the policy shock of the previous week (the steepest gold import duty hike on record, a record-low rupee, and a tightening of the Advance Authorisation scheme), price action paused. MCX gold gained just 0.1%, silver was essentially flat. COMEX gold and silver both declined modestly, by 0.8% and 1.7% respectively. The week’s headline numbers reveal almost nothing about what is actually happening in the Indian gold market right now. The

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The Tariff Lag Effect: Why MCX Prices are Still Below

The week ending May 22 was the digestion week. After the policy shock of the previous week (the steepest gold import duty hike on record, a record-low rupee, and a tightening of the Advance Authorisation scheme), price action paused. MCX gold gained just 0.1%, silver was essentially flat. COMEX gold and silver both declined modestly, by 0.8% and 1.7% respectively. The week’s headline numbers reveal almost nothing about what is actually happening in the Indian gold market right now. The

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IIGJ to Provide Services from Udupi also

Mumbai: Shri Suresh Prabhu, Hon. Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, inaugurated the Indian Institute of Gems & Jewellery (IIGJ), Udupi, an initiative of the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), established with the support of Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman Hon’ble Union Minister of Defence. With this IIGJ Udupi and others in Mumbai, New Delhi, Varanasi & Jaipur, GJEPC

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Coimbatore Gets Common Facility Centre

Mumbai: India’s Minister for Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Mr. Suresh Prabhu laid the foundation of the Common Facility Centre (CFC) at Coimbatore – the ‘Ratna Abhushan Suvidha Kendra’, is a project by the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry. Present on the occasion were Mr. B Sabarinath (President, Coimbatore

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DPA Launches New Diamond Campaign

Mumbai: Diamond Producers Association (DPA) recently announced the third wave of the Real is Rare, Real is a Diamond campaign. Entitled ‘For Me, From Me’, the campaign is inspired by the natural diamond industry’s strongest growth engine, women self-purchase, which today represents one-third of all diamond jewelry sales in the US, a $43 billion diamond market that grew +4% in

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De Beers' Revenue Grows in 2018

London: Anglo American said De Beers’ revenue leaped 4% to $6.1 billion in 2018 compared with $5.8 billion, a year earlier. The diversified mining group, which has an 85% stake in De Beers, said rough diamond sales also increased by 4% to $5.4 billion against $5.2 billion in 2017, driven by improved overall consumer demand for diamond jewellery and a 1%

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IIGJ to Provide Services from Udupi also

Mumbai: Shri Suresh Prabhu, Hon. Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, inaugurated the Indian Institute of Gems & Jewellery (IIGJ), Udupi, an initiative of the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), established with the support of Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman Hon’ble Union Minister of Defence. With this IIGJ Udupi and others in Mumbai, New Delhi, Varanasi & Jaipur, GJEPC

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Coimbatore Gets Common Facility Centre

Mumbai: India’s Minister for Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Mr. Suresh Prabhu laid the foundation of the Common Facility Centre (CFC) at Coimbatore – the ‘Ratna Abhushan Suvidha Kendra’, is a project by the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry. Present on the occasion were Mr. B Sabarinath (President, Coimbatore

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DPA Launches New Diamond Campaign

Mumbai: Diamond Producers Association (DPA) recently announced the third wave of the Real is Rare, Real is a Diamond campaign. Entitled ‘For Me, From Me’, the campaign is inspired by the natural diamond industry’s strongest growth engine, women self-purchase, which today represents one-third of all diamond jewelry sales in the US, a $43 billion diamond market that grew +4% in

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De Beers' Revenue Grows in 2018

London: Anglo American said De Beers’ revenue leaped 4% to $6.1 billion in 2018 compared with $5.8 billion, a year earlier. The diversified mining group, which has an 85% stake in De Beers, said rough diamond sales also increased by 4% to $5.4 billion against $5.2 billion in 2017, driven by improved overall consumer demand for diamond jewellery and a 1%

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