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The 200-Day Test: Where the Bull Case for Gold and Silver Goes on Trial
Macro Snapshot: The week ending June 26 extended the precious metals selloff to a fifth consecutive week and pushed both gold and silver into the most important long-term technical zone of the broader uptrend: the 200-day exponential moving average. Three macro forces drove the decline, and they did so simultaneously. First, the US-Iran 60-day peace roadmap, formally signed in Switzerland on June 17, continued to remove the geopolitical risk premium that had supported the metals since the February conflict began.

The 200-Day Test: Where the Bull Case for Gold and Silver Goes on Trial
Macro Snapshot: The week ending June 26 extended the precious metals selloff to a fifth consecutive week and pushed both gold and silver into the most important long-term technical zone of the broader uptrend: the 200-day exponential moving average. Three macro forces drove the decline, and they did so simultaneously. First, the US-Iran 60-day peace roadmap, formally signed in Switzerland on June 17, continued to remove the geopolitical risk premium that had supported the metals since the February conflict began.
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GII Builds Synthetic Diamond Detecting Machine
Mumbai: To address the threat of undisclosed mixing of Synthetic diamonds with Natural Diamonds, the Gemmological Institute of India (GII), a project of Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) and co-sponsored by Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) has introduced a new instrument which immediately detects synthetic diamonds. The instrument which has been named as “Quick-Check”, has been indigenously designed by

Russian Manufacturers Request State Support
Moscow: On the eve of the abolition of the 6.5% export duty on diamonds coming on September 1, 2016, Russian diamond cutters said they would need large-scale state support. As the Kommersant Daily came to know, the largest local diamond industry enterprise, which is Smolensk-based Kristall, proposed to introduce new protective market mechanisms, stating that without them, Russian diamond manufacturers

ALROSA Started to Sell 10.9%
Moscow: On Wednesday, Sberbank CIB and VTB Capital (coordinators of the transaction to float the diamond miner’s state-owned shares) opened an order book for purchasing 802,780,000 shares in ALROSA (10.9% of the state-held stock) after yesterday’s trading on the Moscow Stock Exchange closed, according to the company’s report released on the Exchange. Thus, ALROSA became the first company with state

Chow Tai Fook Among Top 10 Luxury Goods Cos.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong-based Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd is still among the world’s top 10 luxury goods companies, earning US$8.29 billion in revenues in financial year 2014, data from the 2016 Global Powers of Luxury Goods report showed. The report, released by global business consultancy firm Deloitte, examined the 100 largest luxury goods companies globally based on the

GII Builds Synthetic Diamond Detecting Machine
Mumbai: To address the threat of undisclosed mixing of Synthetic diamonds with Natural Diamonds, the Gemmological Institute of India (GII), a project of Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) and co-sponsored by Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) has introduced a new instrument which immediately detects synthetic diamonds. The instrument which has been named as “Quick-Check”, has been indigenously designed by

Russian Manufacturers Request State Support
Moscow: On the eve of the abolition of the 6.5% export duty on diamonds coming on September 1, 2016, Russian diamond cutters said they would need large-scale state support. As the Kommersant Daily came to know, the largest local diamond industry enterprise, which is Smolensk-based Kristall, proposed to introduce new protective market mechanisms, stating that without them, Russian diamond manufacturers

ALROSA Started to Sell 10.9%
Moscow: On Wednesday, Sberbank CIB and VTB Capital (coordinators of the transaction to float the diamond miner’s state-owned shares) opened an order book for purchasing 802,780,000 shares in ALROSA (10.9% of the state-held stock) after yesterday’s trading on the Moscow Stock Exchange closed, according to the company’s report released on the Exchange. Thus, ALROSA became the first company with state

Chow Tai Fook Among Top 10 Luxury Goods Cos.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong-based Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd is still among the world’s top 10 luxury goods companies, earning US$8.29 billion in revenues in financial year 2014, data from the 2016 Global Powers of Luxury Goods report showed. The report, released by global business consultancy firm Deloitte, examined the 100 largest luxury goods companies globally based on the