NEWS BRIEFING: 23 October 2026

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

💰'Silver Hits Year-To-Date Low As Gold Also Falls Amid Rising Oil Prices'

Conor Murray, 23 October 2026, Forbes: Silver slipped below $54 an ounce for the first time this year, less than half its January peak above $120, and gold futures fell to about $4,040. Saxo's Ole Hansen put the slide down to the inflation threat from Brent crude above $115, which is keeping rate-hike bets alive.
www.forbes.com

💰'Gold Edges Lower After Fed Holds Rates With Limited Guidance'
28 October 2026, Bloomberg: Gold drifted lower after the Federal Reserve left rates unchanged at its 27–28 October meeting and gave traders little steer on whether it will raise them again in December.
www.bloomberg.com

💰'India Jewelers Hold Off Gold Buying, Betting Prices Will Drop'
28 October 2026, Bloomberg: Indian jewellers are delaying gold restocking before the Dhanteras and Diwali festive season because they expect prices to fall further.
www.bloomberg.com

💰'Hermès, Cartier's Last Reliable Shoppers Are Retreating in China'
23 October 2026, Bloomberg: The wealthy Chinese clients who had kept buying from Hermès and Cartier while the wider luxury market slowed are now pulling back as well.
www.bloomberg.com

💰'Amanda Seyfried Is Tiffany & Co.'s Newest House Ambassador for Its 2026 Holiday Campaign'
Maura Rodriguez, 28 October 2026, L'Officiel Philippines: Tiffany has signed Amanda Seyfried as a house ambassador and cast her in 'You & Me', a holiday film about family heirlooms and the Tiffany Blue Box.
www.lofficielph.com

💰'Jean Prounis' 'Moderne' jewellery collection is inspired by art deco New York'

Felix Bischof, 25 October 2026, Wallpaper*: In 'Moderne', the New York jeweller takes her work in a new art deco direction, handmaking 22-carat gold, rock-crystal and heirloom-diamond pieces in Manhattan's jewellery district. She researched it through pochoir prints at the New York Public Library and archive designs by Cartier and Fouquet, and partly dedicates it to her great-grandfather Otto Prounis, who co-opened the Versailles nightclub in 1936.
www.wallpaper.com

💰'Meet the ninth-generation artisans behind Jaipur's famed jeweller The Gem Palace'
18 October 2026, South China Morning Post: SCMP Style profiles the family craftspeople behind Jaipur's Gem Palace, now in its ninth generation, as the house makes its debut at Lane Crawford in Hong Kong.
www.scmp.com

💰''7 Major Accessories Trends That Will Take Over In 2027'
Kristen Nichols, 27 October 2026, Who What Wear: Three of the seven accessory trends in this spring/summer 2027 runway round-up are jewellery: antique-revival earrings at Celine, Ralph Lauren and Saint Laurent, long beaded necklaces at Chanel and Celine, and floral brooches at Ralph Lauren and Chanel.
www.whowhatwear.com

💰'Jewelry Trends 2026: Why Personalization Matters'
Laia Farran Graves, 27 October 2026, Forbes: Engraved lockets, interchangeable charms and antique pieces are leading a shift towards jewellery valued for meaning and individuality rather than show. Designers and dealers, including Monica Rich Kosann, describe the demand, and the article cites a forecast that the customisation market will grow from about $0.97bn this year to $1.44bn by 2035.
www.forbes.com

💰'UAE shoppers outsmart rising costs to keep Diwali gold traditions alive'
Waheed Abbas, 26 October 2026, Khaleej Times: With 24-carat gold at about Dh481.5 a gram in Dubai, UAE jewellers including Malabar Gold and Diamonds report that Diwali shoppers are setting fixed budgets and buying lighter, everyday pieces rather than giving up the festival purchase.
www.khaleejtimes.com

💎'Crown Princess Ingrid Alexandra, 22, makes her debut as heir to the throne with sentimental tiara – best photos'
Eleanor Dye, 23 October 2026, Hello!: At the Storting dinner at Oslo's Royal Palace, the first of the new reign, Norway's new Crown Princess wore the amethyst tiara that King Harald V gave Queen Sonja for her 60th birthday and that later passed to Mette-Marit, while Queen Sonja wore Queen Maud's pearl tiara.
www.hellomagazine.com

💎'Queen Letizia brings back special jewelry piece from her pre-royal days'
Alexandra Hurtado, 15 October 2026, Hello!: At the 75th Premio Planeta awards in Barcelona, Queen Letizia wore a diamond bracelet from before her marriage that she had not worn publicly since a pre-wedding event in Copenhagen in May 2004, with PDPAOLA pavé hoop earrings.
www.hellomagazine.com

🏛️'7 Magnificent Pieces of Jewelry to Watch at the November Auctions in Geneva'
Rena Gross, 23 October 2026, Galerie: Royal and noble provenance runs through the November Geneva sales. Phillips offers Queen Mary's 1928 Hennell pearl and diamond necklace and an emerald bracelet that belonged to Empress Eugénie. Sotheby's offers the Duchess of Devonshire's convertible Cartier black opal tiara, worn at the 1937 and 1953 coronations, and the Orléans diamond tiara made by Mellerio around 1862.
galeriemagazine.com