Last week IDEX Online launched an old-new product, the Indian DRB. Old, because we have had the DRB for about a year now, new because this version is in Indian Rupees, specifically geared for the Indian market – and pardon the shameless plug. Read More...

The Passover holiday is celebrated in Jewish communities around the world this week and Easter is just around the corner. Happy holidays, we will be back next week. Read More...

Its elected president finally taking the reigns, the embargo on diamond exports about to expire, and some very porous borders – a dive into Côte d’Ivoire and its fragile situation raises questions about the resumption of its diamond exports. Read More...

If you didn't have a calendar, you could suspect that it's mid-2008. Polished prices are increasing, rough prices are at an all time high, optimism is in the air, and the party is raging. But every mid-2008 has a late 2008. Where are we heading? Read More...

I made an unusual journey last week spending the first half of it at a diamond mine in Sierra Leone, and the second half at the Basel show. These two places could not have been further apart. Read More...

The decision by KP Chairman Mathieu Yamba to authorize full exports from Marange is legal. The problem is that when drafted, KP did not take into account a host of situations. The irony is that while many claimed that the diamond industry was cynical and shifty, it was in fact simply naïve. Read More...

It's heart breaking to see what is happening in Japan. As always, there are those that see the short-term hardship and  believe it to be the be all and end all, but don’t ignore the power of love. Read More...

Only last week I mentioned here that polished diamond prices are tightly connected to consumer demand while rough diamond prices are much more free willing, marching to a beat of their own. Read More...

February, usually a cold month in the northern hemisphere, was anything but cold for the diamond industry. Polished diamond prices raced upwards and rough diamond prices went wild. Is this the Promised Land? Read More...

Everybody from Morocco in the west to Iran in the east is closely following the quickly changing face of the Arab world. The common denominator in the countries where the revolutions are moving far ahead is the age of the ruler. Vicious old and frail, just like Mugabe. Read More...