The diamond trade remains under pressure, and further contraction of the market is expected this year. Apart from being squeezed by high rough costs and declining polished prices, dealers lament there are too many players chasing the same ...
Tags: Diamond Trade, Diamond
The India International Jewellery Show (IIJS), which took place in Mumbai this week, reflected a cautious local diamond and jewelry trade, even if sentiment was better than expected. Suppliers arrived with low expectations as a month-long ...
Tags: IIJS, Mumbai, diamond and jewelry trade, GJEPC, GST
The World Diamond Conference that took place last week in New Delhi, India, created a buzz in the industry that, frankly, needed a bit of a pick-up considering the state of the market. It not often that two heads of state attend a diamond ...
Tags: Diamond Trade, Arts
The organiser of the JNA Awards, the most prestigious awards event to recognise and honour excellence and achievement in the jewellery and gemstone trade, is delighted to announce the addition of two industry veterans to the judging panel ...
Indian government may have been trying hard to acquire a ‘Global Diamond Trading Hub’ status for its diamond industry on one hand but on the other hand if some figures are to be believed, it may be on verge of surrendering its ...
The sluggishness in economies of the US and European countries continues to eclipse India’s Gem & Jewellery sector as the annual export-import figures of 2012-13 recently declared by the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council ...
Tags: G&J Sector, jewelry
Production by the world's largest diamond producer De Beers has been consistently going down past many years and as a result now India's DTC (Diamond Trading Company, rough diamond distribution arm of De Beers) sightholders are facing acute ...
The global diamond industry has been passing through a 'Transformation Stage' since the severe economic recession hit it in 2008. The diamond prices too have become highly volatile since then, and are expected to grow at an accelerated rate ...
It may be encouraging news for the Indian government that India’s gold demand during calendar year 2012 went down by 12% at 864.2 tonnes on year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, though the second half (July-December) saw demand going up by 23% ...
Tags: gold demand, WGC, GJEPC Ventures, B2C Jewellery Shows
India’s Gem & Jewellery (G&J) sector witnessed another volatile year with weaker rupee and sluggish global economy adding more agony to its exports which declined by 17.09% in dollar terms and 4.65 per cent in rupee terms in 2012. ...
If a recent report by Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) is anything to go by, India’s diamond industry is facing a threat of being eclipse by its close rival China in near future. Associated ...
Tags: ASSOCHAM, diamond industry, India, rough diamonds
The unabated volatility in gold price has forced India's middle-class consumers to try out a cheaper option and their obvious choice now is to opt for silver jewellery.After an initial poor performance,last monsoon season in India improved ...
Tags: gold, silver jewellery, silver, investment