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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
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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India To Launch System to Certify Gemstone Quality
New Delhi: The commerce ministry will soon launch a system similar to hallmarking of gold to certify the quality of precious gemstones. “We want consumers to know the purity of precious gemstones. Right now, there is no proper mechanism to know how testing of precious gemstones is done because of which consumers are misled,” a senior government official said. The
Finalists for Xifu Wedding Jewellery Design Comp.
Hong Kong: The Xifu International Gold Wedding Jewellery Design Competition 2017 is pleased to announce that it has shortlisted 30 finalists who will vie for the Grand Prize that includes a 1kg pure gold bar. Organised by JNA and CJNA of UBM Asia, the World Gold Council (WGC) and the People’s Government of Yantian District, Shenzhen, the biennial competition aims
Argyle Diamond Coin Trilogy Sold Within a Month
Perth: Rio Tinto announced the sale of The Australian Trilogy, an AUD$1.8 million one-of-a-kind coin collection featuring a pink, purple pink and violet diamond from Rio Tinto’s Argyle Diamond Mine in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia. Released by The Perth Mint, The Australian Trilogy was sold to an anonymous collector from Asia within a month of its unveiling
Lulo Achieves Huge Sales Growth
Luanda: Rough-diamond sales from the Lulo mine in Angola rose 58% in the second quarter, reaching $4.8 million, owner Lucapa Diamond Company reported Wednesday. First-half sales slumped 41% to $15.4 million, partly because in the same period the previous year, the company sold a 404-carat rough diamond — the largest in Angolan history — for $16 million. Meanwhile, second-quarter production
India To Launch System to Certify Gemstone Quality
New Delhi: The commerce ministry will soon launch a system similar to hallmarking of gold to certify the quality of precious gemstones. “We want consumers to know the purity of precious gemstones. Right now, there is no proper mechanism to know how testing of precious gemstones is done because of which consumers are misled,” a senior government official said. The
Finalists for Xifu Wedding Jewellery Design Comp.
Hong Kong: The Xifu International Gold Wedding Jewellery Design Competition 2017 is pleased to announce that it has shortlisted 30 finalists who will vie for the Grand Prize that includes a 1kg pure gold bar. Organised by JNA and CJNA of UBM Asia, the World Gold Council (WGC) and the People’s Government of Yantian District, Shenzhen, the biennial competition aims
Argyle Diamond Coin Trilogy Sold Within a Month
Perth: Rio Tinto announced the sale of The Australian Trilogy, an AUD$1.8 million one-of-a-kind coin collection featuring a pink, purple pink and violet diamond from Rio Tinto’s Argyle Diamond Mine in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia. Released by The Perth Mint, The Australian Trilogy was sold to an anonymous collector from Asia within a month of its unveiling
Lulo Achieves Huge Sales Growth
Luanda: Rough-diamond sales from the Lulo mine in Angola rose 58% in the second quarter, reaching $4.8 million, owner Lucapa Diamond Company reported Wednesday. First-half sales slumped 41% to $15.4 million, partly because in the same period the previous year, the company sold a 404-carat rough diamond — the largest in Angolan history — for $16 million. Meanwhile, second-quarter production
