This round-up will be on Wednesday next week, due to the Thanksgiving holiday …
Yes, more consumers do
want jewelry.
Retail sales rise
fourth month in a row.
– Gains “driven
by car sales.”
Predictions of Black
Friday gains.
– List of Black Friday jewelry
deals.
– Zale Black Friday offer called “simplistic.”
New Fortunoff jewelry site launches.
Birks and Mayor’s sales up
8.8%.
– Mayor’s celebrates 100th anniversary.
Wall Street Journal: Gold’s rise “recrafts
jewelry.”
– Price sinks below
$1,400.
Polar Ice Diamonds in
receivership.
Pink diamond sets
record.
– Mineweb asks: Why are diamond
miners “unloved”?
De Beers: Polished prices
increasing.
– Interesting Rapaport interview with De
Beers’ Stephen Lussier.
Abbey Normal
– Kimberley Process Monitor goes
rogue, certifies diamonds on his own.
– KP chairman warns: “Don’t
buy.”
– African Diamond Producers Association warns back. (from Zim govt. newspaper)
“Fresh revelations” about Zimbabwe mining in
court papers.
– “Diamond bosses fight
back.”
Idex: Rough diamond stats show “money laundering.”
Africa Report
attacks Petra Diamonds on
tax revenue.
Google targets
fashion market. (The site doesn’t
carry jewelry, however.)
Will Power
– Prince’s engagement
ring sparks frenzy
for replicas. (Congrats to Royal Sapphire for some timely PR. They were
mentioned in virtually ever article I saw on this.)
– QVC sells knockoffs.
– Could ring be cursed?
– Should he have given it? A
debate! Really stupid.
Jewelers Closing:
Maddux
Jewelry in Hollister, Calif.
Clyde’s
Jewelers in Thibodaux, La.
Ballew
Jewelers in Red Bank, N.J.
Tiffany declares
dividend.
Why a jeweler would
sell perfume.
Over 500,000 “diamond
fans” on Facebook.
Blue Nile CFO resigns.
Thomas Yang joins
GIA board of governors.
Stuart Robertson gets
gemology award.
Lawsuit over $1
billion emerald.
Domed city over
Siberian mine?
Special on the Hope Diamond coming
up. This show is currently offered for free on iTunes.
Media Watch:
– Time on the Kimberley
Process and Zimbabwe.
– Jezebel: Jewelry “filthy,
poisonous.”
– Fortune
profiles Fredric DeNarp.
From the Blog:
Yes,
There is Increased Jewelry Demand This Season.
Another
KP Crisis, Another Game of Chicken.
Why
a Jeweler Would Sell Perfume.
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