Natural Diamond Prices – May 2022
Due to geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine and the seasonal influences of the Passover and Easter holidays, the diamond market slowed in April 2022. The natural diamond trade was…
Due to geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine and the seasonal influences of the Passover and Easter holidays, the diamond market slowed in April 2022. The natural diamond trade was underpinned by steady US retail demand, but dealer activity was slow due to price uncertainty, Chinese lockdowns, and Russian...
From a global pandemic to a war. Yet another global disaster to humanity many of us did not see coming. It's been just over a month since Russia invaded Ukraine and what is to be considered Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. On March 11, the US government banned imports of Russian diamonds. The sanc...
We’re 3 months into 2022. In Jan and Feb there was a continued recovery in natural diamond prices, from their low in 2020. As we entered March prices increased notably, possibly reflecting a reaction to sanctions against Russia which specifically name diamonds (Russia produces 1/3 of the world’s diamonds). Let’s tak...
It's the Month of Love, which could mean many different things in the natural diamond industry. Could this month come bearing positive news for the average price of natural diamonds or could the love of natural diamonds be affected by the recovering economy? Let’s take a closer look at the Top 5 Popular Diamond Shap...
Hello 2022, with a new year comes new opportunities and new expectations. It's unpredictable what 2022 holds for the diamond industry given the rough past two years we've had but let's hope that this new year will polish the repairs of the COVID-19 global pandemic made in 2021 (no pun intended). This festive season ...