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RAPAPORT PRESS RELEASE, July 1, 2025, Las Vegas… The diamond market remained cautious in June as the industry awaited decisions on prospective US tariffs. The Las Vegas shows saw resilience in the ...
Hong Kong jeweler Tse Sui Luen (TSL) recorded a loss for the full fiscal year amid waning appetite for diamond jewelry in China and an increase in shoppers from the municipality purchasing goods while ...
Barak Levy has joined the André Messika Diamond Group as head of its Belgium office. Levy was director at Diamond Creations for the past 13 years, he wrote recently in a Facebook post. As well as ...
Botswana President Duma Boko had to try twice to inject some energy into a sleepy audience at the annual World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) gathering in New York. It was the morning after the ...
The Luxury and JCK Las Vegas shows reflected the varied state of the industry, with higher-end jewelers reporting good sales while loose-diamond dealers saw patchy results. Exhibitors at the more ...
There was a degree of skepticism and confusion in the diamond hall of the JCK Las Vegas show after De Beers’ announcement of its latest marketing program. The miner launched Ombré Desert Diamonds, a ...
Debswana, the 50-50 joint venture between De Beers and the Botswana government, will temporarily halt output at some sites and has reduced its rough guidance for the full year. The move, which is due ...
A number of sources have expressed interest in snapping up De Beers from parent company Anglo American, including ex-chiefs Gareth Penny and Bruce Cleaver, who have each put in separate bids. Penny, ...
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has updated the terms it will use to describe lab-grown on reports, to distinguish them further from natural diamonds. The new nomenclature will use ...
Signet Jewelers’ revenue rose in the first fiscal quarter as the new CEO’s strategy changes appeared to pay off. Sales increased 2% year on year to $1.54 billion for the 13 weeks that ended May 3, the ...
President Duma Boko has called for every diamond from Botswana’s mines to remain in the country for manufacturing, signaling a major policy shift, according to a local report. “We are moving to a ...
The main news from the recent Kimberley Process (KP) intersessional meeting related to the organization’s definition of conflict diamonds. The African Diamond Producers Association (ADPA), which ...