Diamond Shavings: Your Friday Web Roundup

 - Indian jewelry to cost 5.5% more in the United States. More here, here and here.

Futures-rama!:

- More derivatives talk from Wyndham and Solitaire. My thoughts. 

- Diamond Circle Capital fund stumbles. (It is very hard to find info on Diamond Circle Capital, by the way. It doesn’t even have a web site.)

- Chaim: Something big brewing at De Beers. Though even he seems unsure what it is.

Media Watch:

- Three part documentary on diamonds on Discovery Times coming July 17.

- “Hype or Fraud?”: Consumer upset over TV diamond purchase.

- NY Times article on Taub case.

- South African TV on greater diamond exploration.

- Jewish Week on Antwerp’s diamond district.

Supreme Court: Manufacturers can set retail prices.

- Good round-up.

- USA Today sees “little impact.” Others disagree.

- Implications for Ebay?.

- Finlay gets credit line, but is downgraded by Standard and Poors.

- Idex/Gassman: Online commerce here to stay.

- New research on the science of diamonds.

- No jewelers in retail’s Top 100.

-You gotta like the name “Deb Zeppelin.”

- Ontario changes diamond tax. News release.

- Details on South Africa’s State Diamond Trader.

- Bloggery: Africa pictures.

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