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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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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Dominion Sees More Life in Diavik Mine

Toronto: Dominion Diamond Corporation has extended the life span of its jointly owned Diavik mine by two years and hiked its estimate of the project’s future production. The deposit in Canada’s Northwest Territories will last until 2025, compared with a projection of 2023 given in March 2015, the miner said Friday. As a result, estimated output from now till the

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Banks Snubbing Belgian Diamond Trade: AWDC

Antwerp: Belgian banks are discriminating against the diamond trade by not lending to anyone linked to the industry, the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) has claimed. The AWDC has proof that banks are systematically refusing customers with any connection to the trade, for both personal and professional banking affairs, it said last week. Lenders snub diamantaires even before they’ve had

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Chiadzwa Diamond Fields Besieged Again

Harare: Thousands of illegal diamond miners, who were evicted from the mining concessions about a decade ago, have since returned to Chiadzwa, raising fears the government could once again be losing millions of dollars in revenue, as uncontrolled mining activities have reappeared due to lack of security, reports News Day. This was revealed in an urgent chamber application filed by

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Consumer Confidence in US Highest Since 2000

New York: American’s have a positive view of the current economic condition leading consumer confidence to reportedly reach the highest level in over 16 years. The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index jumped by more than 100 since February, indicating an improvement for the second consecutive month. It also eclipsed economists’ estimates of 114. Consumers have appraised the current conditions and

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Dominion Sees More Life in Diavik Mine

Toronto: Dominion Diamond Corporation has extended the life span of its jointly owned Diavik mine by two years and hiked its estimate of the project’s future production. The deposit in Canada’s Northwest Territories will last until 2025, compared with a projection of 2023 given in March 2015, the miner said Friday. As a result, estimated output from now till the

Read More »

Banks Snubbing Belgian Diamond Trade: AWDC

Antwerp: Belgian banks are discriminating against the diamond trade by not lending to anyone linked to the industry, the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) has claimed. The AWDC has proof that banks are systematically refusing customers with any connection to the trade, for both personal and professional banking affairs, it said last week. Lenders snub diamantaires even before they’ve had

Read More »

Chiadzwa Diamond Fields Besieged Again

Harare: Thousands of illegal diamond miners, who were evicted from the mining concessions about a decade ago, have since returned to Chiadzwa, raising fears the government could once again be losing millions of dollars in revenue, as uncontrolled mining activities have reappeared due to lack of security, reports News Day. This was revealed in an urgent chamber application filed by

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Consumer Confidence in US Highest Since 2000

New York: American’s have a positive view of the current economic condition leading consumer confidence to reportedly reach the highest level in over 16 years. The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index jumped by more than 100 since February, indicating an improvement for the second consecutive month. It also eclipsed economists’ estimates of 114. Consumers have appraised the current conditions and

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