News Briefing
NEWS BRIEFING: 28 June 2026
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A curated edit of the week's global jewellery news - national and international - compiled for industry insight and trend monitoring.
💰‘Gold falls as dollar holds firm on Fed rate-hike expectations’
Reuters, 23 June 2026, CNBC: A one-year-high dollar and rising bets on a September Fed hike drove gold down more than 2% to around $4,100, extending a slide of over 3% since the Fed meeting and roughly 20% below January’s record.
💰‘Silver price hits new low, here is what comes next’
Hillary Remy, 11 June 2026, TheStreet: Silver has shed more than 40% since its January peak, falling harder than gold because the hawkish-Fed, strong-dollar backdrop is hitting both its monetary and its industrial demand at once.
💍 ‘Van Cleef & Arpels’ Fascinating Egypt collection, inspired by pharaohs and pyramids’
South China Morning Post (Style), 10 June 2026: Unveiled at a Palais de Chaillot gala in Paris, the roughly 180-piece haute joaillerie collection revives the maison’s century-old Egyptomania through mystery-set gems, lotus and scarab motifs, and a reworked 1929 royal necklace.
💍‘Cartier NGV exhibition review: nearly 400 jewels and timepieces’
Wallpaper*, 23 June 2026: The V&A’s Cartier show has opened in expanded form at Melbourne’s NGV (to 4 October), anchored by the 1,500-diamond Manchester tiara and a closing gallery of 24 tiaras in a Sabine Marcelis-designed setting.
