NEWS BRIEFING: 16 August 2026

A curated edit of the week's global jewellery news - national and international - compiled for industry insight and trend monitoring.

💰'Gold rebounds towards 10-week high as markets brace for US CPI data'
Pablo Sinha, 12 August 2026, Reuters: Spot gold rose 0.9 per cent to $4,404.99 an ounce by 0713 GMT, closing on a ten-week peak, as traders pared their bets on a September Federal Reserve tightening ahead of a July inflation print expected to reset policy expectations.
www.reuters.com

💰'Silver prices today, Wednesday, August 12, 2026: Surpassing $66 as expectations for July inflation ease'
Tim Manni, 12 August 2026, Yahoo Finance: Silver pushed through $66.49 an ounce, up 3.9 per cent on the week and 72.8 per cent year on year, as the market wagered that a softer core inflation reading would take a September rate rise off the table.
finance.yahoo.com

💰'Where gold price is headed next as Fed rate hike and inflation odds change direction'
13 August 2026, CNBC: A forward assessment of bullion's next move argues that shifting market odds on a Federal Reserve rise rather than a cut, set against cooling inflation, will decide whether gold can hold its gains above $4,400.
www.cnbc.com

💰'Jeweller Pandora raises 2026 guidance as new designs draw in shoppers'
Reuters, 12 August 2026, Reuters: Pandora lifted its 2026 organic growth guidance to 0–3 per cent and its operating margin target to 22–23 per cent after second-quarter EBIT of DKK1.46bn beat a DKK1.10bn consensus, with new chief executive Berta de Pablos-Barbier crediting the Wonders charm range.
www.bnnbloomberg.ca

💰'Pandora CEO: Platinum push is staying despite falling silver prices'
13 August 2026, CNBC: Pandora's chief executive told CNBC the group will press on with platinum-plated jewellery — piloted in the Netherlands, tested more widely in the fourth quarter and rolled out through 2027 — to cut its exposure to volatile silver, even as prices ease.
www.cnbc.com

💰'Style Edit: Van Cleef & Arpels opens new, larger Hong Kong Maison'
Vincenzo La Torre, 10 August 2026, South China Morning Post: Van Cleef & Arpels has moved its Hong Kong flagship to a larger Alexandra House address, one of only five Maisons worldwide, with Studio Jouin Manku's plaster-petal facade and indoor garden framing a ground-floor gallery for rotating archive displays.
www.scmp.com

💰'Senco Gold share price plunges 10% on lower Q1 profit, weak margins'
Abhinav Ranjan, 12 August 2026, Business Standard: Senco Gold shares fell as much as 10 per cent after first-quarter net profit slipped 3 per cent to Rs 101.1 crore despite revenue surging 67 per cent to Rs 3,056 crore, as gold volatility and heavy discounting cut the EBITDA margin to 7 per cent.
www.business-standard.com

💰'PC Jeweller share price jumps 5% after Q1 results 2026. Do you own?'
11 August 2026, Mint: PC Jeweller's shares rose around 5 per cent after first-quarter consolidated net profit climbed 37 per cent to Rs 222 crore on revenue up 21 per cent to Rs 877 crore, following a Rs 2,702 crore warrant issue and a proposed Rs 1,000 crore placement.
www.tradingview.com

💎 'The most expensive engagement ring ever? Everything we know about Ronaldo's jaw-dropping diamond'
Theo Farrant, 12 August 2026, Euronews: With the couple's quiet Cascais wedding confirmed, gemmologists and auction specialists were canvassed on the oval-cut three-stone ring Cristiano Ronaldo proposed to Georgina Rodríguez with, returning readings of anywhere between 22 and 50 carats and valuations from $2m to $10m.
www.euronews.com

💎'Tallulah Willis' custom wedding ring has a secret message inside'
Kim Parker, 10 August 2026, Something About Rocks: After her 8 August wedding to Justin Acee in Idaho, the couple's matching Karina Noel gold bands were revealed to carry the engraving "every day", echoing the antique-style four-carat champagne old mine-cut diamond she co-designed for her engagement.
somethingaboutrocks.com

💍'Sabyasachi x Met Museum: Byzantine-Inspired High Jewellery Debuts at New York Fashion Week'
Aditi Tarafdar, 11 August 2026, Esquire India: Sabyasachi Mukherjee has struck a multi-year partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, mining its Greek, Roman, medieval and Islamic holdings for a Byzantine-inflected high jewellery collection that debuts at New York Fashion Week on 15 September, ending a seventeen-year absence from the schedule.
www.esquireindia.co.in

💍'Style shoot: Van Cleef & Arpels' Fascinating Egypt high jewellery collection'
SCMP Style Reporter, 10 August 2026, South China Morning Post: A digital cover shoot photographed by Matthieu Delbreuve sets the maison's Fascinating Egypt high jewellery against pared-back neutral tailoring, arguing that its atelier techniques reinterpret pharaonic motifs as sculptural modern pieces rather than costume pastiche.
www.scmp.com

🏛️'Berlin gold hat: A 3,000-year-old ceremonial headdress that a cult used to track the sun, moon and lunar eclipses'
Kristina Killgrove, 10 August 2026, Live Science: Held by Berlin's Museum of Prehistory and Early History since 1996, this 74cm cone of hammered sheet gold weighing 480g was made between 1000 and 800 BC, and the decorated bands running up it encode a calendar precise enough to predict lunar eclipses.
www.livescience.com

🏛️'House record for Batemans as Cadbury's Conundrum egg brings spectacular bidding'
Antiques Trade Gazette, 11 August 2026, Antiques Trade Gazette: A 22ct gold egg made for Cadbury's Conundrum treasure hunt set a house record at Batemans of Stamford on 1 August, drawing fierce competition against a pre-sale estimate of £15,000–£20,000.
www.antiquestradegazette.com