(IDEX Online) - Sales of jewelry, watches, clocks and other valuable gifts in Hong Kong increased by 3.3% on the year in October to HKD 6.868 billion ($878 million), reported the Census and Statistics Department. The rise was higher than that recorded in September when Typhoon Mangkhut hit Hong Kong and the increase in jewelry sales was 2.2%. For the first 10 months of this year, th...Read More
RAPAPORT... De Beers plansto expand its Lightbox product offering next year after observing strong consumer interest in its rollout of synthetic-diamond jewelry.The company hopes to introduce stackable rings in the latter part ofthe first quarter, Sally Morrison, Lightbox's chief marketing officer, confirmedto Rapaport News Monday. Bracelets will then come onto the market laterin 2019. John...Read More
RAPAPORT... PC Jeweller plans to reduce its exports by more than aquarter during the current fiscal year as it looks to minimize its credit needsin a tighter Indian lending market. The company receives payment for exports several monthsafter a transaction, and therefore has to take bank loans to buy raw materialsand support the business, Sanjeev Bhatia, PC Jeweller's chief financialofficer, t...Read More
RAPAPORT... Sales of jewelry and other luxury goods in Hong Kong beganto rebound in October after a typhoon drove tourism rates down theprevious month. October sales grew 3.3% year on year to HKD 6.87 billion($878.2 million) for jewelry, watches, clocks and other valuable gifts,according to data the Census and Statistics Department released last week.Total retail sales in Hong Kong increased 6% to...Read More
(IDEX Online) - World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) President Ernie Blom says the diamond and jewelry industries appear to be heading for a strong end of the year according to import and export figures and other reports in recent weeks. India recently reported a 19-percent rise in exports in October in its latest results, while Belgium posted a 17-percent increase. Meanwhile, US ret...Read More
The Gahcho Kué diamond mine that Canadian miner Mountain Province owns in partnership with Anglo American’s De Beers is set to produce between 6.6-million and 6.9-million carats in the 2019 financial year – a level also forecast for 2020.The mine, located in the Northwest Territories, will process between 3.1-million and 3.2-million tonnes of ore in 2019 and 2020, at a productio...Read More
Market participants held back on trading low-grade manganese ore on fears of further price drops in the run-up to year end, Fastmarkets learned in the latest pricing session in the week ended Friday November 30. Low-grade ore prices slide in China High-grade ore price inches up on stock-building activity Chinese physical manganese alloy price holds in spite of futures drop India...Read More
(IDEX Online) - The International Jewelry & Diamond Conference (Guangzhou) 2018 organized by Guangzhou Diamond Exchange and Guangdong Gems & Jade Exchange and co-organized by the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) was held last week. More than 600 delegates from Brazil, Thailand, India, the U.S., Ukraine, Senegal, Belgium, Britain, the Netherlands, Lebanon, Canada, Singapore, Bots...Read More
(IDEX Online) - A survey released by the Diamond Producers Association (DPA) and KRC Research found that over 53 million Americans (21%) plan to purchase a diamond between Thanksgiving and Valentine's Day, with men and millennials most likely to purchase them. Of those who plan to buy a diamond, more than 20 million plan to buy a diamond engagement ring. The survey confirmed that the...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Significant achievements in the harmonization of wording on laboratory reports and the reporting of new treatments were reached during the 29th meeting of the Laboratory Manual Harmonisation Committee (LMHC), which was recently hosted by the G? 1/4 belin Gem Lab in Lucerne, Switzerland. The LMHC is currently comprised of representatives from the Central Gem Laboratory (CGL),...Read More
The aluminium mill-grade scrap market in the United States is showing further signs of wear, with prices shrugging off steep gains on the London Metal Exchange due to ample supply and limited demand.Despite the sharp uptick on the LME, some mill-grade scrap prices continued to succumb to downward pressure in Fastmarkets AMM's assessment on Monday December 3. Prices for 5052 segregated low-cop...Read More
The US Midwest P1020 aluminium premium held its range on Tuesday December 4, while domestic market participants kept out of the spot market and focused on depleting their existing inventories before the end of the year.Fastmarkets AMM assessed the P1020 duty-paid Midwest aluminium premium at 19-19.5 cents per lb on December 4, unchanged from the previous assessment. The premium had declined on Nov...Read More
The latest metal markets news and price moves to start the North American day on Tuesday December 4. Base metals prices, bar those for tin, on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were all down during Asian morning trading on Tuesday December 4, with investors taking profits following the complex's strong performance on Monday.Here is how the LME base metals complex looked at 11.58am London time: For...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mostly higher during morning trading on Tuesday December 4, lifted by a slight downturn in the US dollar index and while market sentiment remains positive after recent US-China trade talks. The three-month nickel price continues to push higher - it is up by more than 6% from last week's low of $10,720 per tonne and is more than 1% higher than la...Read More
This article has been corrected to show that the Fastmarkets MB copper concentrates index should have read $88.8 per tonne/8.88 cents per lb on Friday November 30, not $87.3/8.73 cents as previously published.Diverted tonnages have been flowing into the spot copper concentrate market following unplanned outages at major smelters, boosting treatment charges (TCs) in the final two weeks of November....Read More
Sumitomo Metal Mining and Sumitomo Corporation will pay US$1.2 billion for a third of Teck's 90% interest through a jointly held entity, with the payment to be split between a $800 million earn-...Read More
Fastmarkets MB has corrected its copper concentrate TC/RC index, which was published incorrectly on November 30 due to a reporter error.The figure for the index has now been amended $88.8 per tonne/8.88 cents per lb.Fastmarkets MB's price book and database have been updated to reflect this change.To provide feedback on this price or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data...Read More
The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Wednesday December 5.Positive developments in the United States-China trade dispute kept London Metal Exchange base metal prices mostly elevated at the close on Tuesday December 4, although broad strength in the dollar is capping price rallies. Read more in our live futures report.Here are how prices looked at the close of trading:Flat stee...Read More
PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedThe company expects to increase its copper production from about an anticipated 150,000 tonnes this financial year to 285,000t in FY2021.However FY2019's cobalt guidance was revised downwards by 8,000t to 26,000t, to reflect the cobalt debottlenecking plant ramp-up and "associated expected shorter-term recoveries".PolarX builds big...Read More
The hot-rolled coil price strengthened slightly in the United States on Monday December 3, due to domestic mills trying to hold the price at $40 per hundredweight ($800 per short ton).Fastmarkets AMM's daily US Midwest hot-rolled coil index inched up to $37.77 per cwt on December 3 from $37.41 per cwt on Friday November 30.Lead times are around four weeks, market participants said.Heard in th...Read More