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The 200-Day Held: Now Comes the Test That Decides Whether the Bounce is a Reversal
Macro Snapshot: The week ending July 3 broke a five-week decline for both gold and silver. Gold posted its first weekly gain since late May and silver led the recovery with a much larger move. The trigger was a weaker-than-expected US jobs report, which reset rate-hike expectations and pushed the dollar to its largest weekly decline since April. Layered underneath were two other significant developments: the release of the World Gold Council’s Mid-Year Outlook on Tuesday July 1 (covered in
The 200-Day Held: Now Comes the Test That Decides Whether the Bounce is a Reversal
Macro Snapshot: The week ending July 3 broke a five-week decline for both gold and silver. Gold posted its first weekly gain since late May and silver led the recovery with a much larger move. The trigger was a weaker-than-expected US jobs report, which reset rate-hike expectations and pushed the dollar to its largest weekly decline since April. Layered underneath were two other significant developments: the release of the World Gold Council’s Mid-Year Outlook on Tuesday July 1 (covered in
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US Economy Makes Slow Start to 2017
New York: The American economy put in its slowest quarterly growth rate in three years in first three months of the year, increasing by an annualized 0.7 percent, according to the Commerce Department. Ironically, the annual growth rate for the quarter is far below the 2.5 percent pace in President Barack Obama’s final three months in office, and even further
Botswana Vulnerable to Weak Diamond Market
Gaborone: Standard & Poor’s (S&P) maintained its negative outlook for Botswana last week due to the country’s continued reliance on the diamond sector. While diamonds account for approximately 80% of Botswana’s total exports and about one-third of its gross domestic product, the economy remains vulnerable to a weak performance in the sector, the financial-services company said Friday. “The negative outlook
Fresh Defeat for Zimbabwe in Diamonds Battle
Harare: The state-run Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) has been barred by the High Court from pillaging diamond ore which belongs to Mbada Diamonds (Pvt) Limited, in a new setback for government’s troubled mining project. Mbada has been granted an interdict stopping the ZCDC — formed last year through a forced merger of Marange Resources, Gye Nyame, Diamond Mining Corporation,
IIDGR to Roll Out Synthetics-Detection Course
London: A training course for synthetic-diamond detection will launch this spring in the US and India, courtesy of De Beers’ International Institute of Diamond Grading and Research (IIDGR). The two-day course — which aims to show participants how to distinguish lab-grown diamonds from natural ones, rough or polished — will debut in the US during the JCK Las Vegas show
US Economy Makes Slow Start to 2017
New York: The American economy put in its slowest quarterly growth rate in three years in first three months of the year, increasing by an annualized 0.7 percent, according to the Commerce Department. Ironically, the annual growth rate for the quarter is far below the 2.5 percent pace in President Barack Obama’s final three months in office, and even further
Botswana Vulnerable to Weak Diamond Market
Gaborone: Standard & Poor’s (S&P) maintained its negative outlook for Botswana last week due to the country’s continued reliance on the diamond sector. While diamonds account for approximately 80% of Botswana’s total exports and about one-third of its gross domestic product, the economy remains vulnerable to a weak performance in the sector, the financial-services company said Friday. “The negative outlook
Fresh Defeat for Zimbabwe in Diamonds Battle
Harare: The state-run Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) has been barred by the High Court from pillaging diamond ore which belongs to Mbada Diamonds (Pvt) Limited, in a new setback for government’s troubled mining project. Mbada has been granted an interdict stopping the ZCDC — formed last year through a forced merger of Marange Resources, Gye Nyame, Diamond Mining Corporation,
IIDGR to Roll Out Synthetics-Detection Course
London: A training course for synthetic-diamond detection will launch this spring in the US and India, courtesy of De Beers’ International Institute of Diamond Grading and Research (IIDGR). The two-day course — which aims to show participants how to distinguish lab-grown diamonds from natural ones, rough or polished — will debut in the US during the JCK Las Vegas show
