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NEWS BRIEFING: 24 May 2026

A curated edit of the week's global jewellery news - national and international - compiled for industry insight and trend monitoring. 💰 Gold Heads for Weekly Drop as Inflation Fuels Rate-Hike Bets Bloomberg News, 14 May 2026, Bloomberg Gold fell as much as 3% to under $4,520 an ounce on track for a roughly 3.3% weekly decline as bond yields rose globally on doubts over how quickly Middle East oil supplies can return, with metals from copper to gold caught in a broad selloff on war-driven inflation fears. www.bloomberg.com 💰 Silver Slumps to Close Out a Rollercoaster Week of

The Unspoken Beauty of Moissanite

Moissanite (/ˈmɔɪsənaɪt/) So what exactly is moissanite; the ugly step-sister of the cinderella gem world? Think again! Incredibly rare and precious, moissanite is a beautifully natural gemstone born from a meteorite star that fell to Earth in 1893. Originally thought to be the discovery of Diamond by French scientist Henri Moissan, it was soon revealed to be a crystal gemstone with very similar properties to Diamond but that was composed of silicon carbide. Due to the natural composition of Moissanite, it has become a very scarce mineral worldwide making moissainte as we see it today almost entirely laboratory-grown. Through

‘Flowers from the Frontline’ Series

‘Flowers from the Frontline’ Series Archivist Exhibit, Garden Museum, London 12th November - 22nd December 2022 The Ukrainian war flower series that finds beauty and growth in a time of destruction. British jewellery designer Phoebe Walsh has created a series of 5 miniature flower pressing books in recycled Sterling Silver, each containing a single war flower from the new frontlines in Kyiv. The project began in March when a brave Kyivan artist Olga Morozova agreed to go searching for flowers as her city fell ablaze. Inspired by the Garden Museum’s collection of Wildflower pressings made by Jane Lindsay in 1956, from London’s WWII