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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Today's Market Report and News Links

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

Today's News Links

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