May 18, 2011 Fancy Intense Pink Diamond Sold for $1M P/C at Auction Lev Leviev’s retail outfit bought a 10.99 carats fancy intense pink / VS1 diamond for $10.84 million at Sotheby’s Magnificent & Noble Jewels auction yesterday (Tuesday). Though the price leans…
May 17, 2011 Swaziland in KP, delegation seeking rough diamond sales to Israel The small African kingdom of Swaziland is about to become a diamond producer once again and is considering how to approach this opportunity. As an old open-pit mine was recently…
May 16, 2011 Sharp decline in U.S. rough diamond trade in March The U.S. imported $36.8 million worth of rough diamonds in March, declining 18.4% from last year. Net imports dropped 87.9% to just […]
May 16, 2011 IDEX Online Research: U.S. jewelry sales slacken in March Jewelry and watch demand softened moderately in the U.S. market in March. New data indicates that total jewelry and watch sales rose […]
May 16, 2011 What’s driving the divergence of commodity prices As the chart below demonstrates commodity prices are driven by different factors. The precious metals prices have been the hyperbolic driver of headline commodities news relative to the broader based…
May 16, 2011 John Kaiser: alternative energy fuels mining boom Advances in energy and agriculture are creating demand for previously ignored metals such as scandium, tellurium and indium. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Mining Analyst John Kaiser,…
May 16, 2011 Without QE3, commodities may suffer While China continues to make asset driven economic decisions and now looks like a traction control experiment where the economy is like a car that is driving on ice that…
May 16, 2011 Chart of the day: commodity flows QE, of course, only happens when interest rates hit the zero bound, so it’s impossible to disentangle the effects of QE from the effects of G3 interest rates all coming…
May 13, 2011 Errant Indian diamond exporters to face the heat In a move meant to curtail fake diamond exports and the round tripping of funds and diamonds indulged in by some nefarious diamond merchants, India's central bank, the Reserve Bank…
May 11, 2011 2010: Year of Replenishment, Speculation and Recycling Any analysis of the 2010 diamond pipeline will need to focus on at least three factors: replenishment throughout the value chain, enormous […]
Silver price whipsaws again as thin liquidity fuels wild swings Spot silver was up more than 7% to about $76 an ounce by mid-morning in New York on Friday, having earlier tumbled toward $64. February 06, 2026 | 01:23 pm
