5–11 October 2026

Precious metals

USD per troy ounce, world spot (gold-api.com). The change compares the first and the last price of the week.

One US dollar buys

• 0.8915 EUR+0.27%
• 0.7556 GBP+0.00%
• 0.8316 CHF+0.31%
• 96.6500 INR+0.47%
• 6.6921 CNY-0.12%
• 7.8537 HKD+0.02%
• 33.5790 THB-0.11%

Central bank reference rates (Frankfurter), change over the week.

From the trade press

1. Van Cleef & Arpels Ring Takes Center Stage at Sotheby’s Paris

   Rapaport · 11 Oct 2026

2. Jewellery Industry Summit Delivers a Powerful Day of Insights, Innovation and Industry Connection

   Jewellery World · 11 Oct 2026

3. Bonhams Fine Jewellery sale in Paris celebrates artist jewellery, coloured gemstones and signed jewels

   Jewellery Outlook · 10 Oct 2026

4. Birmingham Jewellery Quarter powers up as UK’s jewellery making engine

   Jewellery Outlook · 10 Oct 2026

5. Bright New Gems 2026 names six graduate winners

   The Jewellery Editor · 9 Oct 2026

6. Raid training expands offering to prepare jewellery sector for organised crime threat

   Jewellery Focus · 9 Oct 2026

7. I Have a Dream: a Possible Gemmology

   Italian Gemological Review · 9 Oct 2026

8. Christie’s Slaps $18M Price Tag on Bulgari Pink Diamond

   Rapaport · 9 Oct 2026

9. The Brand Comes Back Home

   Jewellery World · 9 Oct 2026

10. Was the Bottom Reached? Lab-Grown Wholesale Prices Rise in Q3 2026

    Edahn Golan Diamond Research · 7 Oct 2026

Headlines from trade publications' public feeds, at most two from any one publication. Links open the original article; JewelLoop does not edit or endorse them.

New on JewelLoop

• Guide Casting weight: calculating the metal from wax or resin

  The one formula behind every casting weight chart, worked examples for gold, silver and platinum, and how much to add for sprues and the button.

• Guide CAD and 3D printing: from first file to finished casting

  How digital design and 3D printing fit into making jewellery today, what the software and printers do, and how to work with a caster from your first file.

• Guide Gemstone treatments: what is done and how to disclose it

  Heating, oiling, filling, diffusion, irradiation and more: which stones are usually treated, what that means for care at the bench, and how to disclose it honestly.

• Guide Heat treatment of ruby and sapphire: how labs detect and report it

  Why corundum is heated, what heating changes inside a stone, how laboratories detect and word it, and how heating differs from diffusion and glass filling.

• Guide Design protection: rights and time limits in the EU, UK, US, China and India

  Registered and unregistered design rights, copyright and how long they last in the EU, UK, USA, China and India, plus the habits that make a claim stronger.

• Guide Gem lab reports: what each section means

  What each section of a diamond grading report and a coloured stone report means, what a report does not tell you, and how to check it matches the stone.

• Guide Bangkok and Chanthaburi: sourcing coloured stones

  How Thailand's two great gem centres work, what to expect on a first buying trip, and the habits that keep a new buyer safe.

• Guide Casting porosity: telling gas, shrinkage and investment apart

  How to recognise the main kinds of porosity in jewellery castings, what usually causes each, and the checks and changes that prevent them.

And 17 more pages that week.

Fairs in the next five weeks

• 16–19 Oct 2026

  JIS Fall

  Miami Beach, United States · Add to calendar

• 22–25 Oct 2026

  The Munich Show (Mineralientage München)

  Munich, Germany · Add to calendar

• 25–27 Oct 2026

  JA New York Fall

  New York, United States · Add to calendar

• 27–29 Oct 2026

  Jewellery, Gem & Technology Dubai (JGTD)

  Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Add to calendar

• 28–30 Oct 2026

  International Jewellery Tokyo Autumn (IJT Autumn)

  Yokohama, Japan · Add to calendar