NEWS BRIEFING: 8 November 2026

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

💰'Central Banks Buy Gold at Fastest Pace Since 2024, WGC Says'
Jack Ryan, 3 November 2026, Bloomberg: The World Gold Council's third-quarter figures show central banks buying 321 tonnes, much of it undisclosed and led by China and Poland, while jewellery demand sank 17 per cent to 313 tonnes, its weakest third quarter since 2000, as record ETF inflows and mine output cushioned the market.
www.bloomberg.com

💰'Gold price slumps to one-year low, silver price breaks $50 as mining stocks tank'
30 October 2026, MINING.COM: Spot gold dropped to about $3,892, its lowest level in a year and some 28 per cent under January's record, heading for its worst October since 2008, while silver closed below $50 for the first time in a year and platinum hit a 14-month low as traders priced in a December Fed hike.
www.mining.com

💰'Gold Set for Biggest Weekly Gain Since August After US Midterms'
6 November 2026, Bloomberg: Gold was heading for its strongest week since August as the metal recovered from its late-October low in the wake of the US midterm elections.
www.bloomberg.com

💰'Could lab-made gold crash prices like diamonds? US start-up says it turned mercury into gold'
Quirino Mealha, 23 October 2026, Euronews: The fusion start-up Marathon Fusion says its process can turn mercury into gold, a still-unverified claim that Euronews weighs against the collapse in lab-grown diamond prices, while noting the gold could stay radioactive for years.
www.euronews.com

💰'Dhanteras: Jewellers eye 20-30 pc jump in gold, silver sales by value as prices cool from Jan peak'
PTI, 5 November 2026, ThePrint: With gold about 19 per cent below its January high in rupee terms and silver down by half, Indian jewellers expected Dhanteras volumes to hold steady and the value of sales to rise by a fifth to nearly a third.
theprint.in

💰'Jeweller Pandora nudges up 2026 outlook helped by demand for novelties'
Reuters, 4 November 2026, Reuters (via Investing.com): Pandora's third-quarter like-for-like revenue rose 7 per cent to DKK 6.69bn, ahead of forecasts, and it tightened its full-year organic growth guide to 2–3 per cent, crediting new collections, a move to platinum-plated pieces and firmer demand in the US and Europe.
www.investing.com

💰'Titan shares gain 2% after Q2 results; brokerages remain largely bullish'
6 November 2026, Business Standard: Titan's September-quarter revenue rose about 10 per cent and its jewellery business, excluding bullion, grew 24 per cent, with studded pieces outpacing plain gold, though brokers warn that the high gold-price base may slow the second half.
www.business-standard.com

💰'Goldman Sachs Revises China Jewelry Stocks Amid Gold Price Retreat'
30 October 2026, Investing.com: With gold well off its January peak, Goldman Sachs upgraded Chow Tai Fook to buy and kept Laopu Gold at buy after its steep share-price fall, while moving Luk Fook to sell.
uk.investing.com

💰'By changing the scale, I began to see these pieces differently": Sarah Emilie Müllertz presents a new drop of tiny Kinraden jewellery'
Felix Bischof, 4 November 2026, Wallpaper*: The Copenhagen architect-turned-jeweller has shrunk designs from three existing Kinraden lines into 'All Things Tiny', a recycled silver and gold collection launching this month at Liberty London.
www.wallpaper.com

💰'Cartier Takes Its Gemstones to Kyoto'
Team Esquire India, 22 October 2026, Esquire India: Cartier showed 46 new pieces from the second chapter of Le Chœur des Pierres at the Kyoto National Museum, led by the Stellara necklace and its 41.01-carat Ceylon sapphire and a tutti frutti necklace that took almost 2,000 hours to make, with a third chapter due in Hawaii next year.
www.esquireindia.co.in

💰'Your Jewelry Box Is Due for an Update—These 6 Spring 2027 Trends Are What's Next'
Ana Escalante, 2 November 2026, Who What Wear: Drawing on the spring/summer 2027 shows, Who What Wear picks out collar necklaces, sculptural cuffs worn high on the arm, shoulder-grazing drops, pendants, long beaded layers and oversized statement earrings as the jewellery looks to watch.
www.whowhatwear.com

💎'Princess Leonor borrows grandmother Queen Sofia's ruby earrings for family night out'
Alexandra Hurtado, 23 October 2026, Hello!: At the Princess of Asturias Awards in Oviedo, Spain's heir wore Queen Sofía's diamond and ruby earrings from the Van Cleef & Arpels parure that Stavros Niarchos gave Sofía as a wedding present in 1962.
www.hellomagazine.com

💎'Every Must-See Look From the 2026 CFDA Awards Red Carpet'
Natalie Michie, 2 November 2026, W Magazine: W's CFDA gallery credits the jewellers on the night, with Rosé and Hailey Bieber in Jessica McCormack, Lupita Nyong'o in Tiffany & Co., Law Roach in Leviev and Coco Jones in Amrapali.
www.wmagazine.com

🏛️'Russian crown jewel from Romanov dynasty could fetch £1.5m at auction'
29 October 2026, ITV News: The Romanov Sapphire, an unheated Ceylon stone of more than 197 carats that Empress Maria Feodorovna wore in 1903 and that Cartier later mounted as a cuff, leads Sotheby's Royal & Noble sale in Geneva on 11 November with an estimate of up to £1.5m.
www.itv.com

🏛️'Salon Art + Design Showcases Contemporary High Jewelry'
Anthony DeMarco, 1 November 2026, Forbes: At least nine of the 40 dealers at the 15th Salon Art + Design at New York's Park Avenue Armory (4–8 November) are jewellers, among them first-time exhibitor Mellerio with a bracelet made for Marie Antoinette, alongside Fernando Jorge, Viltier, Cora Sheibani and Yvel.
www.forbes.com

🏛️'This new Dubai exhibition is recreating a 2,000-year-old gold necklace'
Time Out Editors, 5 November 2026, Time Out Dubai: L'ÉCOLE's free show in Dubai Design District (5 November to 24 April 2027) remakes an Iron Age Celtic gold torque found in France in 1843 and shows how the replica was crafted.
timeoutdubai.com

🏛️('Graff holds retrospective showing about 65 years of change and a heart-shaped diamond tiara')
28 October 2026, Fashionsnap: Graff's 65th-anniversary exhibition in Harajuku, Tokyo (12–25 November, booking required) centres on the Infinity Tiara and its 157.80-carat D-colour heart-shaped diamond cut from a Karowe rough.
www.fashionsnap.com

🏛️'Wondering What to See and Do during NYCJW26?'
30 October 2026, Art Jewelry Forum: A visitor's guide to NYC Jewelry Week (16–22 November) picks out Pratt's student shows, 'Anonymous Brooklyn' at Brooklyn Metal Works, 'Earrings Galore' at Heidi Lowe Gallery, Gallery Loupe's 20th anniversary and a SNAG gallery crawl.
artjewelryforum.org