The fair price on a 1-carat lab-grown diamond has fallen to $770, down 26.3% over the year, while De Beers realized just $105 per carat in Q2 on production that rose 46% in the first half. The natural-to-grown spread now defines the retail counter.
De Beers moved to close the gap between its book and the street at the July sight, with cuts on some smaller goods reportedly reaching 50 pe…
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The wholesale diamond market is re-pricing just as US retailers commit to fall inventory. De Beers dragged its official list back to seconda…
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De Beers lowered official rough prices at the July sight and trimmed its buyer roster to roughly 45, finally bringing the book toward second…
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The Q2 2026 lab-grown wholesale index fell 13% year over year, but the average hides a split: one-carat rounds rose 1% while two-carat stone…
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US independent jewelers posted an 18% sales gain in June, but units were flat as average tickets climbed. Natural diamond jewelry rose 10% o…
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Rapaport's early-July list showed 0.30 to 0.49 carat rounds recovering off inventory lows just as De Beers moved to align its rough prices w…
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The July Rapaport list showed prices for pointer diamonds, the 0.30 to under 1.00 carat sizes, rising for the first time in more than four y…
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De Beers' latest US consumer research, released June 29, found average natural-diamond spending up 25% to $4,063 and the average stone up to…
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De Beers data confirms India is now the world's second-largest diamond jewellery market at 12% of global demand, surpassing China and Japan …
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De Beers' consolidated realized rough price slipped to $155 per carat, down 5 percent year on year, after price cuts of 10 to 15 percent. La…
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India's gem and jewellery exports declined 2.49 percent year on year in May 2026, weighed down by gold prices, while polished lab-grown diam…
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India's combined April-May 2026 gem and jewellery exports came in at $4.27 billion against $4.55 billion the prior year, a 6.03% contraction…
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