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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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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Gold Demand in UAE Plummeted in Q1

Dubai: Demand for gold jewelry in the United Arab Emirates plummeted in the first quarter, and traders say they know the culprit: the value-added tax, reports Bloomberg. Wholesale gold jewellery sales in Dubai, sometimes known as the City of Gold, fell 50 to 60 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier after VAT began on Jan. 1, according

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Forevermark Hosts Program for Indian Retailers

Mumbai: Forevermark, the diamond brand from The De Beers Group of Companies, recently organised a customised programme on ‘Leadership in the Disruptive Era’ at the Cambridge Judge Business School, the acclaimed business school of the University of Cambridge with 35 select leading partners. Working with the Cambridge Judge Business School, Forevermark adapted the program to open up the minds and

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CIBJO President Visits Bahrain as Guest of DANAT

Milan: CIBJO President Gaetano Cavalieri has concluded a week-long visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain, as the guest of DANAT, the Bahrain Institute for Pearls & Gemstones, during which he met with the leadership of the country’s fast-developing gemstone and jewellery centre, and discussed the possibility of its hosting the CIBJO Congress in 2019. Located on an archipelago on the

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Nirav Modi's Fate Could Now be in China's Hands

Mumbai: With the Ministry of External Affairs revealing it had on March 23 sought from Hong Kong the provisional arrest of businessman Nirav Modi over the Punjab National Bank scam, the fate of India’s currently most-wanted missing businessman could now lie in the hands of China, reports India Today. Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, enjoys “a

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Gold Demand in UAE Plummeted in Q1

Dubai: Demand for gold jewelry in the United Arab Emirates plummeted in the first quarter, and traders say they know the culprit: the value-added tax, reports Bloomberg. Wholesale gold jewellery sales in Dubai, sometimes known as the City of Gold, fell 50 to 60 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier after VAT began on Jan. 1, according

Read More »

Forevermark Hosts Program for Indian Retailers

Mumbai: Forevermark, the diamond brand from The De Beers Group of Companies, recently organised a customised programme on ‘Leadership in the Disruptive Era’ at the Cambridge Judge Business School, the acclaimed business school of the University of Cambridge with 35 select leading partners. Working with the Cambridge Judge Business School, Forevermark adapted the program to open up the minds and

Read More »

CIBJO President Visits Bahrain as Guest of DANAT

Milan: CIBJO President Gaetano Cavalieri has concluded a week-long visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain, as the guest of DANAT, the Bahrain Institute for Pearls & Gemstones, during which he met with the leadership of the country’s fast-developing gemstone and jewellery centre, and discussed the possibility of its hosting the CIBJO Congress in 2019. Located on an archipelago on the

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Nirav Modi's Fate Could Now be in China's Hands

Mumbai: With the Ministry of External Affairs revealing it had on March 23 sought from Hong Kong the provisional arrest of businessman Nirav Modi over the Punjab National Bank scam, the fate of India’s currently most-wanted missing businessman could now lie in the hands of China, reports India Today. Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, enjoys “a

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