As the industry gathered in Hong Kong for the Jewellery & Gem World (JWG) show this week, important talks about the diamond industry’s difficulties were happening elsewhere. Executives from Alrosa, ...

Signet Jewelers’ latest quarterly results reflected the mixed state of US retail. The company recorded a decline in sales and a heavy loss, but there were signs of improvement. What can we discern ...

What is the Rapaport team reading? Our editors and reporters have picked out content from around the web that’s helped expand their knowledge of the diamond and jewelry industry this week. A Forgotten ...

New York, USA, and Dubai, UAE; 19 September 2024: Rapaport Diamond Corporation and DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre) – the world’s flagship free zone and Government of Dubai Authority on ...

Swiss watch exports continued to grow in August amid increased demand in the US and Japan, but overall, buyers are being more careful about spending due to global economic challenges. Shipments of ...

Jewelers Mutual and Jewelers’ Security Alliance (JSA) have issued an urgent warning to the trade about the increasing severity and frequency of jewelry-store robberies by organized crime groups. The ...

Josh Arazi, vice president and creative director at Arazi Diamonds, came on the Rapaport Diamond Podcast to discuss the company’s decision to restrict the services it offers customers that sell ...

US retail sales continued to grow in August as consumer demand returned amid lower inflation and a softening in unemployment levels. Revenue rose 0.1% from the previous month to $710.8 billion — ...

There’s a constant buzz about Turner Road, the upscale thoroughfare that passes through the heart of Mumbai’s trendy Bandra West neighborhood. Bandra has gained a reputation for attracting the city’s ...

Lucara Diamond Corp. has recovered a massive diamond weighing 1,094 carats from its Karowe mine in Botswana, the second over 1,000 carats in the last month. The “extraordinary” stone was detected ...

A pair of Boucheron diamond-cluster earrings beat its upper estimate at a recent jewelry sale at Christie’s in New York, bringing in $567,000. The pair, which carried a high price of $550,000, ...

Tricksters are getting better at imitating inscriptions on diamonds — but there’s still one feature of the laser engraving that they can’t duplicate, says Dr. Wuyi Wang of the Gemological Institute of ...