After a strong start of the week, prices weakened during latter part, pulling the weekly index lower in relatively quiet trading volumes.
| Level Daily | Change |
Monday | 126.3 | -0.1% |
Tuesday | 127.4 | +0.8% |
Wednesday | 128.2 | +0.7% |
Thursday | 128.2 | -0.0% |
Friday | 126.9 | -1.1% |
Monday | 126.1 | -0.6% |
The main PolishedPrices index opened at 126.1 points on Monday, down 0.2% over the week and just above the opening level for the year. However, the index is still 3.6% above the level it was trading a year ago.
Commercial one carat diamonds were the weakest performers of the benchmark sizes over the past week, falling 6.1% to reach their lowest level since mid March.
Smaller sizes fared well this week, with high end 0.3 carat diamonds recording a 6.0% gain. Commercial 0.3 carats rose 1.3% and Mixed opened 1.5% higher.
The definitions of our groupings are: Fine: goods better than I color and VS2 and above.Commercial: K SI3 and above, excluding the Fine category, and Mixed: the rest down to M I3
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