Hawkish Fed Comments on Inflation Landed Right at Both Metals’ Supply Zones, and the Correction Wrote Itself

Macro Snapshot: The correction in gold and silver during the week ending August 28 was a confluence event. Both metals had rallied into well-defined supply zones (gold at ₹162,000-164,000, silver at ₹244,000-248,000) and were showing early signs of exhaustion. Into that setup, the July PCE release on August 26 came in hot on the headline (3.7% year over year against 3.6% consensus), and Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s August 28 Jackson Hole address leaned decisively hawkish on inflation. The trigger

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Hawkish Fed Comments on Inflation Landed Right at Both Metals’ Supply Zones, and the Correction Wrote Itself

Macro Snapshot: The correction in gold and silver during the week ending August 28 was a confluence event. Both metals had rallied into well-defined supply zones (gold at ₹162,000-164,000, silver at ₹244,000-248,000) and were showing early signs of exhaustion. Into that setup, the July PCE release on August 26 came in hot on the headline (3.7% year over year against 3.6% consensus), and Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s August 28 Jackson Hole address leaned decisively hawkish on inflation. The trigger

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Blue Fancy Colour Diamond Prices Up

New York: Analysis of pricing data by the Fancy Colour Research Foundation (FCRF) for the second quarter of 2017 indicates overall pricing stability across all categories over the same quarter in the previous year. A deeper look at the data reveals that blue fancy colour diamond prices continued to appreciate, climbing 5.5 percent over last year, while yellow fancy colour

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PNG Jewellers Wins 3 Prestigious Awards

Mumbai: PNG Jewellers has bagged three awards at the prestigious ‘National Jewellery Awards (NJA) 2017’ including, ‘The best 360 marketing campaign of the year’ the ‘National Diamond jewellery’ and ‘Best Paramparik Gold Jewellery’ of the year award. PNG Jewellers also earned another laurel at the Retail Jewellers India Awards 2017 for the ‘Social Media Campaign of the Year’. PNG Jewellers

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Global Gold Demand Declines by 10% in Q2

Mumbai: Global gold demand in Q2 2017 was 953 tonnes (t), a fall of 10% compared with the same period in 2016. This was reflected in a 14% decline in demand for the first half of 2017, which slowed to 2,004t, according to the World Gold Council’s (WGC) latest Gold Demand Trends report. After record levels of inflows into Exchange

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De Beers to Hold Polished Auction in August

Gaborone: De Beers Group yesterday announced that its Auction Sales business will run further polished diamond auction events in August, following the success of the initial events in late June. Customer response to the initial auction events in June was positive, with the auction featuring diamonds polished directly from De Beers-mined rough diamonds seeing the majority of lots successfully sold.

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Blue Fancy Colour Diamond Prices Up

New York: Analysis of pricing data by the Fancy Colour Research Foundation (FCRF) for the second quarter of 2017 indicates overall pricing stability across all categories over the same quarter in the previous year. A deeper look at the data reveals that blue fancy colour diamond prices continued to appreciate, climbing 5.5 percent over last year, while yellow fancy colour

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PNG Jewellers Wins 3 Prestigious Awards

Mumbai: PNG Jewellers has bagged three awards at the prestigious ‘National Jewellery Awards (NJA) 2017’ including, ‘The best 360 marketing campaign of the year’ the ‘National Diamond jewellery’ and ‘Best Paramparik Gold Jewellery’ of the year award. PNG Jewellers also earned another laurel at the Retail Jewellers India Awards 2017 for the ‘Social Media Campaign of the Year’. PNG Jewellers

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Global Gold Demand Declines by 10% in Q2

Mumbai: Global gold demand in Q2 2017 was 953 tonnes (t), a fall of 10% compared with the same period in 2016. This was reflected in a 14% decline in demand for the first half of 2017, which slowed to 2,004t, according to the World Gold Council’s (WGC) latest Gold Demand Trends report. After record levels of inflows into Exchange

Read More »

De Beers to Hold Polished Auction in August

Gaborone: De Beers Group yesterday announced that its Auction Sales business will run further polished diamond auction events in August, following the success of the initial events in late June. Customer response to the initial auction events in June was positive, with the auction featuring diamonds polished directly from De Beers-mined rough diamonds seeing the majority of lots successfully sold.

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