The R&M “Lettre”

Much of what’s contained in De Beers’s 2017 Diamond Insight Report was foreshadowed by company executives at the annual Forevermark breakfast held during the Las Vegas jewelry shows back in June.

Of late many Indian diamond as well as jewellery companies have been hit hard due to the slowdown in the international consuming markets.

Have you noticed that a significant part of analytical articles published lately contain this phrase, “… Since the time the diamond monopoly of De Beers ended…“? Time and again, experts recall this, regretfully mulling over the decline in consumer demand, the recurring downturns in the market, the volatility of prices, and the need for generic […]

It is more than two months since demonetisation of high-value currency notes in India took effect, but the resilient gems & jewellery industry, though stirred, stands strong and stoic in the face of adversity.

Jewelry orders improved at this week’s Signature India International Jewellery Show (IIJS), following a government demonetization program that had frozen activity since November.

So here it is, 2017 is already one month old, we have got over our end of year excesses, we are beginning to come to terms with the winter cold and… we are setting our sights on the year ahead.

AWDC and Bain & Company noted in their 2016 global diamond report that rough-diamond revenues declined by 24 percent in 2015 as the midstream segment sold down accumulated inventories.

The global diamond industry, while discussing the situation on the market within its own circle, sometimes does not pay enough attention to the dialogue with its main counterparty – the end buyer of its goods, natural diamonds

There was little surprise when Time magazine named Donald Trump its ‘Person of the Year.’ Love him or hate him, Trump left his mark more than any other individual on 2016. Notably, the choice says as much about the impact he will potentially make as it does about his historic election.

Israel’s diamond industry has undertaken several initiatives this year to lift the level of trading, and morale, in an otherwise challenging market environment.

Profit is the new turnover in the diamond trade. As retail inventory levels continue to shrink due to recession-driven efficiencies, the trade has had to change its mindset.

A month after the sudden announcement by the Indian government that it was withdrawing 500 and 1,000 rupee notes as part of a battle against corruption, the shockwaves are still being felt by the country’s diamond industry from the so-called demonetization.