NEWS BRIEFING: 30 August 2026

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

💰'Gold Holds Near Three-Month High as Traders Weigh Treasury Moves'
29 August 2026, Bloomberg: Spot gold held close to a three-month peak above $4,600 an ounce as investors weighed US Treasury debt-management signals against their bets on the Federal Reserve's next move.
www.bloomberg.com

💰'Gold Slips as Fed Chief Warsh's Jackson Hole Speech Looms'
28 August 2026, CNBC: Bullion eased off its three-month high as Fed chair Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole remarks firmed up expectations of a further rate move.
/www.cnbc.com

💰'Silver Price Today, Wednesday, August 26, 2026: Silver Prices Hold, Notching a 17% Monthly Gain'
Tim Manni, 26 August 2026, Yahoo Finance: Silver futures held near $68.62 an ounce — up 17 per cent on the month and 78.2 per cent year on year — as the market waited on the PCE inflation print and Jackson Hole for direction.
finance.yahoo.com

💰'Lovisa's Sales and Profit Soar, Driven by Strong US, Europe Performance'
Sean Cao, 26 August 2026, Inside Retail Australia: Lovisa's FY26 revenue rose 17.6 per cent to A$938.8m and net profit 10.7 per cent to A$95.6m, with 160 net new stores taking the estate to 1,136 across more than 50 markets and both Americas and Europe sales up around 29.5 per cent.
insideretail.com.au

🏛️'Ancient shipwreck gives up dazzling treasures after more than 1,300 years underwater'
Andrea Margolis, 19 August 2026, Fox News: A Byzantine wreck off the Croatian coast has yielded a pearl-and-green-gemstone ornament, ruby- and emerald-set buckles, a gold signet ring and over 600g of imperial gold coins — the largest gold haul ever recovered from a Mediterranean wreck.
www.foxnews.com

🏛️'Cartier's Largest-Ever Exhibition in Australia Is a Story of Tiaras, Panthers and Distinguished Clients'
Kee Foong, 23 June 2026, Wallpaper*: Cartier's retrospective at NGV International, Melbourne runs 12 June to 4 October 2026, tracing 180 years through nearly 400 jewels and timepieces including tiaras, panther brooches and mystery clocks.
www.wallpaper.com

🏛️'Jewel Purpose: The Art of Van Cleef & Arpels'
Edward Behrens, 29 July 2026, Apollo Magazine: 'Glanzstücke: Van Cleef & Arpels High Jewelry × Masterpieces from the MAK Collection' runs at the MAK, Vienna until 27 September 2026, pairing some 300 maison pieces with 200 works from the museum's decorative-arts holdings to argue jewellery belongs among the fine arts.
apollo-magazine.com

🏛️'Diamonds Are Not Forever'
Ruth Peltason, 22 August 2026, Air Mail: The newly reopened Lalique Museum in Doesburg presents 'Magnificent Jewels! Art Nouveau & Art Deco Jewelry by René Lalique and Contemporaries', nearly 130 pieces from the collection and private lenders, running to 27 June 2027.
airmail.news