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Silver Leads the Recovery: Bearish Move Shows First Signs of Exhaustion
Macro Snapshot: The week ending May 1 was dominated by Powell’s final FOMC meeting on April 28-29, which delivered the headline outcome markets expected — a hold at 3.50-3.75% — but with a far more contentious internal split than anticipated. The committee voted 8-4 to hold (some sources reported 11-1, but the dissent count of four is firmer), with Stephen Miran preferring an immediate quarter-point cut and three others — Hammack, Kashkari, Logan — supporting the hold but opposing the

Silver Leads the Recovery: Bearish Move Shows First Signs of Exhaustion
Macro Snapshot: The week ending May 1 was dominated by Powell’s final FOMC meeting on April 28-29, which delivered the headline outcome markets expected — a hold at 3.50-3.75% — but with a far more contentious internal split than anticipated. The committee voted 8-4 to hold (some sources reported 11-1, but the dissent count of four is firmer), with Stephen Miran preferring an immediate quarter-point cut and three others — Hammack, Kashkari, Logan — supporting the hold but opposing the
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De Beers Group Acquires Peregrine Diamonds
Gaborone: De Beers Group is pleased to announce that its Canadian mining business, De Beers Canada, has entered into an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the outstanding securities of Peregrine Diamonds Ltd (TSX: PGD) (“Peregrine”), owner of the high quality Chidliak diamond resource located in Canada’s Nunavut Territory, at a purchase price of C$0.24 per share, for a

De Beers’ Q2 Production Rises 3% to 9 Million Carats
Gaborone: Releasing its production update for the three months ended June 30, 2018, mining conglomerate Anglo American plc said that De Beers had seen a 3% growth in rough diamond production to 9.0 million carats during this period. Giving further details, De Beers said the rise reflected both production increases to meet stronger demand as well as the contribution from

CIBJO Participating in ECOSOC High-Level Segment
New York: CIBJO President Gaetano Cavalieri is participating in the annual High-Level Segment of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) currently underway in New York, where just prior to the meeting the council’s Secretary General approved and distributed a statement on the jewellery industry’s contribution to the UN development programme that had been submitted by the World Jewellery Confederation. The

SRDC Unveils its New Avatar as IIG
Mumbai: Shri Rajendra Diamond Classes (SRDC), one of India’s premier gemological institutes officially announced its rebranding as IIG (International Institute of Gemology) at a grand ceremony on July 19. To mark this proud milestone, Mr Ramnikbhai Shah, founder of leading diamond manufacturing house Venus Jewel and Mr Arvindbhai Parikh, MD and founding partner of Crystal Diamonds inaugurated IIG’s new institute

De Beers Group Acquires Peregrine Diamonds
Gaborone: De Beers Group is pleased to announce that its Canadian mining business, De Beers Canada, has entered into an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the outstanding securities of Peregrine Diamonds Ltd (TSX: PGD) (“Peregrine”), owner of the high quality Chidliak diamond resource located in Canada’s Nunavut Territory, at a purchase price of C$0.24 per share, for a

De Beers’ Q2 Production Rises 3% to 9 Million Carats
Gaborone: Releasing its production update for the three months ended June 30, 2018, mining conglomerate Anglo American plc said that De Beers had seen a 3% growth in rough diamond production to 9.0 million carats during this period. Giving further details, De Beers said the rise reflected both production increases to meet stronger demand as well as the contribution from

CIBJO Participating in ECOSOC High-Level Segment
New York: CIBJO President Gaetano Cavalieri is participating in the annual High-Level Segment of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) currently underway in New York, where just prior to the meeting the council’s Secretary General approved and distributed a statement on the jewellery industry’s contribution to the UN development programme that had been submitted by the World Jewellery Confederation. The

SRDC Unveils its New Avatar as IIG
Mumbai: Shri Rajendra Diamond Classes (SRDC), one of India’s premier gemological institutes officially announced its rebranding as IIG (International Institute of Gemology) at a grand ceremony on July 19. To mark this proud milestone, Mr Ramnikbhai Shah, founder of leading diamond manufacturing house Venus Jewel and Mr Arvindbhai Parikh, MD and founding partner of Crystal Diamonds inaugurated IIG’s new institute