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Palladium $ 1762 / ozt 5.89%

Crude Oil $ 55.99 / bbl -1.37%

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Silver Futures $ 66.28 / ozt -0.35%

Aluminum Futures $ 2906.75 / ton 0.08%

Micro Gold Futures $ 4353.8 / ozt -0.41%

Micro Silver Futures $ 66.29 / ozt -0.23%

Platinum $ 1953.1 / ozt 1.11%

Gold Futures $ 4354 / ozt -0.40%

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2010: Year of Replenishment, Speculation and Recycling

IDEX Online | May 11, 2011 | 7:43 pm Diamond

Any analysis of the 2010 diamond pipeline will need to focus on at least three factors: replenishment throughout the value chain, enormous speculation in rough fuelled by an overabundance of Indian banking credit and – for the first time in a major way – the recycling of diamonds