RAPAPORT... The Women's Jewelry Association (WJA) has elected JennyLuker, president of Platinum Guild International, as its new international-board president. Sara Yood, senior counsel of the Jewelers VigilanceCommittee, will serve as treasurer, while Rebecca Moskal, a partner at jewelry-marketingfirm Communiqu?(C), will take on the position of corporate secretary. LaurenThompson of Jewelers of Am...Read More
RAPAPORT... Jewelry and watch companies need to increase efforts toensure their supply chains are free of human-rights abuses, a campaign group cautioned in a report last week."Many jewelers can do more to find out if their gold ordiamonds are tainted by child labor or other human-rights abuses," said JulianeKippenberg, associate child-rights director at Human Rights Watch. "Whensomeone buys...Read More
RAPAPORT... The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has identified asynthetic moissanite stone that had been submitted to one of its laboratories as anatural rough diamond.The GIA's Carlsbad lab recently examined the 9.71-caratstone, whose shape was similar to an octahredron, staff gemologist RebeccaTsang wrote in the Winter 2017 edition of the institute's journal, Gems& Gemology. "While th...Read More
The day the Nunes FISA memo was released, stocks plummeted 666 points. Was it a message to President Trump? Q anon thinks so, and so do I. Is Rothschild ready to tank the US stock market as way to punish Trump for daring to challenge the ruling elite and shadow government? Remember too that the 1988 cover of 'the Economist' predicted that 2018 would be a tumultuous year for the US Dollar.Bill Holt...Read More
Secretary of Defense James Mattis stated on or about February 2nd, 2018 that the United States has "no evidence" that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Continue...Read More
"We have restructured and significantly reduced our commercial operation and will no longer be promoting opioids to prescribers."Continue...Read More
The decades-long bull market in bonds seems to be coming to an end, and this is causing serious drama on Wall Street.Continue...Read More
It was a rough week for investors in stocks and stocks of all kinds. The S&P 500 lost 5%. Emerging Markets also lost 5%. Gold StocksContinue...Read More
(IDEX Online) - India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has launched an investigation into billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi, one of the country's richest men, over accusations that he and others defrauded a state bank of $44 million. The CBI said it was acting on a complaint from the Punjab National Bank that Nirav Modi and others had conspired with bank officials to fraudulently o...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Sotheby's Diamonds is offering a Type IIA 102.34-carat, D Flawless stone to private buyers. Sotheby's says the Gemological Institute of America described the stone as the "largest round shaped, D color, Flawless diamond ever graded." Mined in Botswana, it weighed 425.40 carats in the rough. Study of the stone and mapping by Sotheby's Diamonds' partner Diacore re...Read More
IF the bull market in stocks and bonds is to end, the implications will be direPD-Gold-Nuggets8-300? 199 because, historically, Continue...Read More
Every decision humans make is colored by their past. Despite vast progress, we are still prey to the oldest tool of learning: social conditioning and the pressure of the group.What was once a key to survival follows us into the modern age. It shapes our decisions, the careers we choose, and at times even forces us to act against our better judgment. But we can break free and shape our own decisi...Read More
Frank Holmes, CEO and chief investment officer of U.S. Global Investors and a regular commentator on the financial television networks CNBC, Bloomberg, BNN and Fox Business,joins Reluctant Preppers' host Dunagun Kaiser to share his remarkable journey from being named mining fund manager of the year by the Mining Journal, to his latest venture with HIVEBlockchain, mining Cryptocurrencies.Holmes wei...Read More
Every decision humans make is colored by their past. Despite vast progress, we are still prey to the oldest tool of learning: social conditioning and the pressure of the group.What was once a key to survival follows us into the modern age. It shapes our decisions, the careers we choose, and at times even forces us to act against our better judgment. But we can break free and shape our own decisi...Read More
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DUBAI, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Here are some factors that may affect Middle East stock markets on Sunday. Reuters has not verified the press reports and does not vouch for their accuracy. INTERNATIONAL/REGIONAL* Israeli jet shot down after bombing Iranian site in Syria * Wall St Week Ahead-Investors brace for more swings as U.S. inflation specter rises * GLOBAL MARKETS-U.S. stocks end bumpy week up sh...Read More
BEIJING, Feb 11 (Reuters) - China's central bank said it will skip open market operations for the 13th straight trading day on Sunday to maintain stable liquidity in the banking system. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) said Contingent Reserve Arrangement and fiscal expenditure provided liquidity ahead of China's Spring Festival.The PBOC drained a net 760 billion yuan ($120.7 billion) from the mon...Read More
Sound Energy PLC (LON:SOU) has laid out an exploration programme for 2018 that is set to deliver several potential value-adding catalysts.A phased seismic programme is partially complete, and a new drill programme will start in July to test three big targets. At the same time, Sound is working on development funding to take its recent successes into production."We are now moving forward with our e...Read More
China plans to launch its long-awaited crude oil futures contract on March 26, the country's securities regulator said on Friday, a move that could potentially shake up pricing of the world's largest commodity market.Read full newsRead More