Recently, trading figures about the four leading diamond centers were released by the local authorities, and it served as an interesting opportunity to compare them to the pre-crash period to see what has changed. Read More...

Conventional wisdom holds that we are suffering from a shortage in rough diamonds. As rough traders keep repeating that "we need to source more rough," official records expose a secret supply of rough to the market, coming from a mysterious source. Read More...

Two guys are put in a room with a suitcase full of cash. They are told they will not be allowed to leave the room until they decide on how they will divide the cash between them. Alternatively, they can leave the money in the suitcase and walk away with nothing. Read More...

Zimbabwe won't leave us alone. You may be tired of hearing about it, you may even want to ignore it, but like a bad case of an exotic infection, if we won't take care of it, it will only get worse. Read More...

Is there a limit to how much rough the diamond industry can digest? Is there a cap to Antwerp's rough diamond exports? Golan dives into the figures and comes up with a surprising answer. Read More...

What do we expect from an organization that was formed to create positive change? Certainly that it would do as it preaches, right? Take the Kimberley Process (KP), for example. Read More...

What would you say if you were told that there is a place, where if you uproot a tree, you will find diamonds hiding in its roots? Is this a far fetched fantasy or an unpleasant reality we need to face bravely? Read More...

In our discussions with the market, we often hear a complaint from retailers, mostly in the U.S., about the tough economic conditions and the threat posed by Internet retailing. Online sales have no doubt changed the retailing landscape. However, it can’t cause the complete abolishment of the physical store. Read More...

Rough diamond prices rose by about 5 percent between late March and the end of April. This is true for the major producers and outside rough suppliers alike. The industry was willing to pay an added premium to first hand buyers, pushing up the prices further by a few percentage points. Read More...

This week, exactly eight years ago, I had the privilege of publishing the first Tacy’s Memo in this space on IDEX Online. That first contribution was titled “Diamond Merchants Going Upstream.” Read More...