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Silver Leads the Recovery: Bearish Move Shows First Signs of Exhaustion
Macro Snapshot: The week ending May 1 was dominated by Powell’s final FOMC meeting on April 28-29, which delivered the headline outcome markets expected — a hold at 3.50-3.75% — but with a far more contentious internal split than anticipated. The committee voted 8-4 to hold (some sources reported 11-1, but the dissent count of four is firmer), with Stephen Miran preferring an immediate quarter-point cut and three others — Hammack, Kashkari, Logan — supporting the hold but opposing the
Silver Leads the Recovery: Bearish Move Shows First Signs of Exhaustion
Macro Snapshot: The week ending May 1 was dominated by Powell’s final FOMC meeting on April 28-29, which delivered the headline outcome markets expected — a hold at 3.50-3.75% — but with a far more contentious internal split than anticipated. The committee voted 8-4 to hold (some sources reported 11-1, but the dissent count of four is firmer), with Stephen Miran preferring an immediate quarter-point cut and three others — Hammack, Kashkari, Logan — supporting the hold but opposing the
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Millennials Still Buying Diamonds: Bruce Cleaver
Gaborone: De Beers Group CEO Bruce Cleaver says in an interview that millennials, the under-35 age group, are still purchasing diamond jewellery, albeit smaller pieces since they are typically less affluent than their parents were at the same age. Cleaver told The Associated Press that millennial diamond buyers are not as traditional as their parents. “We find that they self-purchase
Vintage Jewellery Proves Worthy Investment
London: Vintage jewellery has gained more than 80 percent in value in the past decade, with many owners not realizing how much money they are sitting on, U.K.-based auction house Bonhams said. Jewellery from the Art Deco period in the 1920s and 1930s and pieces from the Belle Epoque era from 1890 to 1915 have appreciated 88 percent since 2006,
AGS Introduces ‘Only My Diamond’ Service
New York: The American Gem Society Laboratories (AGS Laboratories) has started a new service called Only My Diamond. The interactive online tool on the AGSLab web site provides an enhancement to AGS Laboratories’ Diamond QualityDocument (DQD) by offering supplementary diamond quality information. The Only My Diamond service includes a downloadable PDF of the Diamond Quality Document (DQD), a video of
Sarine’s Sales Expected to Grow in Q4
Tel Aviv: Sarine Technologies expects fourth quarter revenue grew significantly as sentiment improved in the Indian diamond manufacturing sector, the diamond equipment supplier said in a trading update. The company projected sales will surpass $18 million during the final three months of 2016, which would imply a 45 percent jump from a year ago but falls in line with the
Millennials Still Buying Diamonds: Bruce Cleaver
Gaborone: De Beers Group CEO Bruce Cleaver says in an interview that millennials, the under-35 age group, are still purchasing diamond jewellery, albeit smaller pieces since they are typically less affluent than their parents were at the same age. Cleaver told The Associated Press that millennial diamond buyers are not as traditional as their parents. “We find that they self-purchase
Vintage Jewellery Proves Worthy Investment
London: Vintage jewellery has gained more than 80 percent in value in the past decade, with many owners not realizing how much money they are sitting on, U.K.-based auction house Bonhams said. Jewellery from the Art Deco period in the 1920s and 1930s and pieces from the Belle Epoque era from 1890 to 1915 have appreciated 88 percent since 2006,
AGS Introduces ‘Only My Diamond’ Service
New York: The American Gem Society Laboratories (AGS Laboratories) has started a new service called Only My Diamond. The interactive online tool on the AGSLab web site provides an enhancement to AGS Laboratories’ Diamond QualityDocument (DQD) by offering supplementary diamond quality information. The Only My Diamond service includes a downloadable PDF of the Diamond Quality Document (DQD), a video of
Sarine’s Sales Expected to Grow in Q4
Tel Aviv: Sarine Technologies expects fourth quarter revenue grew significantly as sentiment improved in the Indian diamond manufacturing sector, the diamond equipment supplier said in a trading update. The company projected sales will surpass $18 million during the final three months of 2016, which would imply a 45 percent jump from a year ago but falls in line with the
