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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Recycling or Sale of Old Gold Jewellery to Attract GST

  New Delhi: The sale of old jewellery, whether for the purposes of buying new jewellery or not, will attract GST, the revenue secretary of the central government, Dr. Hasmukh Adhia has clarified. He was speaking at ‘GST ki Master Class’, a series of sessions broadcast live on government TV and radio channels, where a team of experts clarified issues

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Tiny Man-Made Stones Uncovered in New York Lab

Hong Kong: Multiple single-cut diamonds, sized from a quarter point to half a point (0.0025-0.005 carats), which were contained in jewellery recently submitted for testing to a Diamond Services laboratory, have been found to be synthetic, greatly expanding the range of goods that can be considered at risk of improper and deceptive disclosure. The jewellery in question was originally submitted

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FATF Warns against Business with Iran, North Korea

New York: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has issued a list of nine countries that it says are not taking sufficient measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. The intergovernmental group, which aims to protect the global financial system from those activities, recently identified Iran and North Korea as high-risk enough to warrant a “call to action.” This

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ALROSA Sells Diamonds Worth $365 Million in June

Moscow: ALROSA has announced its rough and polished diamond sales results for June and the first half of 2017. In June 2017, ALROSA Group sold USD 365 million worth of rough and polished diamonds. Rough diamond sales by value amounted to USD 354.4 million, polished diamond sales – USD 10.6 million. In January–June 2017, ALROSA’s rough and polished diamond sales

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Recycling or Sale of Old Gold Jewellery to Attract GST

  New Delhi: The sale of old jewellery, whether for the purposes of buying new jewellery or not, will attract GST, the revenue secretary of the central government, Dr. Hasmukh Adhia has clarified. He was speaking at ‘GST ki Master Class’, a series of sessions broadcast live on government TV and radio channels, where a team of experts clarified issues

Read More »

Tiny Man-Made Stones Uncovered in New York Lab

Hong Kong: Multiple single-cut diamonds, sized from a quarter point to half a point (0.0025-0.005 carats), which were contained in jewellery recently submitted for testing to a Diamond Services laboratory, have been found to be synthetic, greatly expanding the range of goods that can be considered at risk of improper and deceptive disclosure. The jewellery in question was originally submitted

Read More »

FATF Warns against Business with Iran, North Korea

New York: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has issued a list of nine countries that it says are not taking sufficient measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. The intergovernmental group, which aims to protect the global financial system from those activities, recently identified Iran and North Korea as high-risk enough to warrant a “call to action.” This

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ALROSA Sells Diamonds Worth $365 Million in June

Moscow: ALROSA has announced its rough and polished diamond sales results for June and the first half of 2017. In June 2017, ALROSA Group sold USD 365 million worth of rough and polished diamonds. Rough diamond sales by value amounted to USD 354.4 million, polished diamond sales – USD 10.6 million. In January–June 2017, ALROSA’s rough and polished diamond sales

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