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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 ...
Gemfields will inaugurate a second ruby-processing plant at its Montepuez site in September, expecting to triple the mine’s overall ore capacity. The company’s new facility in Mozambique will increase ...
The Rapaport Diamond Podcast zoomed in on Europe’s diamond market in the latest episode, which featured German jewelry designer Katharina Junkert. Junkert explained the history of Pforzheim, Germany’s ...
Addressing a packed room, Rapaport Group Chairman Martin Rapaport delivered a wide-ranging and impassioned presentation on Sunday at the 2025 JCK Las Vegas show. The session, titled “State of the ...
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 ...
Alysa Teichman, Co-owner of Ylang 23 “We are excited to see newness from our current designers and how their collections have evolved with rising gold costs. We especially love seeing our overseas ...
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 ...
The US jewelry market is in motion: adapting, evolving, and revealing new patterns of consumer behavior in response to shifting economic and political pressures. In our May-June issue, Rapaport ...
Sweta Jain, Designer and president, Goshwara “I’ve witnessed significant shifts in the market over two decades. When I first started, it was a seller’s market, but today, I strongly believe it has ...
Bonhams plans to keep holding live auctions as well as online versions, as it considers the former a staple of the international auction market, according to Kate Flitcroft, the UK-based auction house ...