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, ...

The upgraded IDEX Mobile offers a range of extra features, designed to make it quicker and easier to browse and buy while you ...

(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 ...

So the latest sanctions deadline came and went largely unnoticed, with none of the chaos and confusion that accompanied the 1 March ban. Back then, traders were required, for the first time, to ...

Boucheron, founded in 1858, has long been popular with US clients, among them the Vanderbilt (shipping and railroad) and ...

(IDEX Online) - An historic necklace with possible links to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, is to be sold by ...

(IDEX Online) - Eight people have been arrested in Surat, India, over the death of a diamond polisher they suspected of ...

The sale - Exceptional Jewels from A Distinguished Collection - takes place this Thursday (26 September) in New York.

(IDEX Online) - Federal agents in the US believe a prisoner using a contraband cell phone may have masterminded a heist on a ...