The Newsletter offers a quick summary of the past week's industry news and full articles.

Petra sold 3.2m carats of rough during the year - an increase of 36 per cent - but achieved lower average prices per carat, ...

(IDEX Online) - Anglo American, parent company of De Beers, may now be more vulnerable to a takeover bid than it was in May, ...

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(IDEX Online) - Exports of Swiss watches increased again in August, but the outlook for the rest of the year remains negative ...

(IDEX Online) - India's exports of polished diamonds fell by 23.8 per cent year-on-year in August, according to the latest ...

(IDEX Online) - Eight people have been arrested in Surat, India, over the death of a diamond polisher they suspected of stealing cash and diamonds from his employer. Lalji Bambhaniya, 35, was ...

(IDEX Online) - An historic necklace with possible links to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, is to be sold by Sotheby's, with a high estimate of $2.8m. It dates back at least 240 years and ...

(IDEX Online) - Boucheron, the luxury French jeweler, has opened its first store in the US. It already has 34 boutiques worldwide, including Paris, London, Tokyo, and Dubai. Boucheron, founded in 1858 ...