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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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ALROSA Recovers a 241.21-Carat Diamond
Moscow: ALROSA, the world’s leader in diamond mining, has recovered a 241.21-carat rough diamond from the Nyurbinskaya diamond pipe. It is one of the largest rough diamonds recovered in the Russian Federation and the third largest among those found at the Nyurba Mining and Processing Division. The crystal measures 38.64 mm by 27.34 mm by 25.46 mm, and is translucent

Rockwell Diamonds’ Productivity-Sales Jump in Q1
Vancouver: As a result of continuous improvement of mining throughput, Rockwell Diamonds has reported improved production and sales performance after a tumultuous quarter of the last financial period, with the volume of diamonds produced in Q1 (the three months ended May 31, 2016) up 32% compared to the first quarter of 2016 and up 7% on Q4 2016, “chiefly due

IIa Technologies Wins SME100 Award
Singapore: Singapore-based IIa Technologies, the world leader in Grown Diamond technology, received the prestigious SME100 Awards for Singapore’s Fast Moving Companies on June 10, 2016. Independently researched, ranked and published by SME & Entrepreneurship Magazine, SME100 ranks the top 100 fast moving companies in selected countries in Asia based on both quantitive and qualitative criteria. Vishal Mehta, CEO, IIa Technologies

CIBJO Specifies Jewellery’s Role in Economy
Milan: While jewellery is a luxury product and non-essential to those who purchase it, the jewellery and gemstone sectors are industries that are essential to the economic and social development of economies and communities around the world, said CIBJO President Gaetano Cavalieri, speaking yesterday at the 15th Rendez-Vous Gemmologiques de Paris in the French capital. The gathering, which was hosted

ALROSA Recovers a 241.21-Carat Diamond
Moscow: ALROSA, the world’s leader in diamond mining, has recovered a 241.21-carat rough diamond from the Nyurbinskaya diamond pipe. It is one of the largest rough diamonds recovered in the Russian Federation and the third largest among those found at the Nyurba Mining and Processing Division. The crystal measures 38.64 mm by 27.34 mm by 25.46 mm, and is translucent

Rockwell Diamonds’ Productivity-Sales Jump in Q1
Vancouver: As a result of continuous improvement of mining throughput, Rockwell Diamonds has reported improved production and sales performance after a tumultuous quarter of the last financial period, with the volume of diamonds produced in Q1 (the three months ended May 31, 2016) up 32% compared to the first quarter of 2016 and up 7% on Q4 2016, “chiefly due

IIa Technologies Wins SME100 Award
Singapore: Singapore-based IIa Technologies, the world leader in Grown Diamond technology, received the prestigious SME100 Awards for Singapore’s Fast Moving Companies on June 10, 2016. Independently researched, ranked and published by SME & Entrepreneurship Magazine, SME100 ranks the top 100 fast moving companies in selected countries in Asia based on both quantitive and qualitative criteria. Vishal Mehta, CEO, IIa Technologies

CIBJO Specifies Jewellery’s Role in Economy
Milan: While jewellery is a luxury product and non-essential to those who purchase it, the jewellery and gemstone sectors are industries that are essential to the economic and social development of economies and communities around the world, said CIBJO President Gaetano Cavalieri, speaking yesterday at the 15th Rendez-Vous Gemmologiques de Paris in the French capital. The gathering, which was hosted