{"id":713,"date":"2026-11-03T22:15:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/?p=713"},"modified":"2026-11-03T22:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:15:35","slug":"polished-diamond-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/2026\/11\/03\/polished-diamond-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Polished diamond news"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feedzy-7c5bc6f78ba1afb40d089cbff75c42fd feedzy-rss\"><div class=\"rss_header\"><h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/RSS\/Polished_Market.rss\" class=\"rss_title\" rel=\"noopener\">IDEX Online - Polished Market<\/a> <span class=\"rss_description\"> Polished Market<\/span><\/h2><\/div><ul><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Putin Backs Russia's Lab Grown Diamond Restrictions<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 8 November 2026 at 3:00 am <\/small><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has backed government restrictions on the sale and description of lab growns.    He said he agreed with finance minister Anton Siluanov that diamonds created by nature should remain the foundation of the industry.    \"My opinion ...<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Tighter Rules on Livestream \"DiamondTok\" Auctions<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 4 November 2026 at 5:00 am <\/small><p>TikTok has tightened its rules on the sale of loose diamonds to customers during fast-paced livestream auctions in the US.    The social media and e-commerce platform now requires sellers to provide GIA or IGI certification for all lab grown and natural gems...<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">Three Years on, Surat Diamond Bourse is Still 90% Empty<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 3 November 2026 at 5:00 am <\/small><p>The Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB) still has only 300 of its 4,700 offices in operation, almost three years after it first opened for business.    The nine-tower complex, which cost $388 million to build, was awarded a Guinness World Record in August 2023 as the ...<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">IDEX Price Report for 1 November: Decreases Dominate in Rounds and Fancies<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 1 November 2026 at 4:00 am <\/small><p>October saw further downward pressure on prices, with decreases substantially outnumbering increases in both rounds and fancy cuts.    Rounds recorded 267 price decreases against 75 increases.    Fancy cuts recorded 253 decreases and 134 increases...<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  style=\"padding: 15px 0 25px\" class=\"rss_item\"><span class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idexonline.com\/portal_FullNews.asp?id=51480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noopener\">888.88-ct Black Diamond Unveiled in Dubai<\/a><\/span><div class=\"rss_content\" style=\"\"><small>on 28 October 2026 at 4:00 am <\/small><p>An 888.88-carat fancy black diamond, fashioned from a 1,138-carat rough stone, has been unveiled, for the first time, in Dubai.    The diamond, named Infinity, was presented by Antwerp-based Diamond Trading NV at the Dubai Diamond Conference on...<\/p><\/div><\/li><\/ul> <\/div><style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\">.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image{float:left;position:relative;border:none;text-decoration:none;max-width:100%}.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image span{display:inline-block;position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;background-position:50%;background-size:cover}.feedzy-rss .rss_item .rss_image{margin:.3em 1em 0 0;content-visibility:auto}.feedzy-rss ul{list-style:none}.feedzy-rss ul li{display:inline-block}<\/style>\n\n\n\n<script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/www.diamonds.net\/NewsFeed\/NewsFeed.aspx?color=white&#038;cats=2,3,4,5'><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[81,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-polished","tag-polished-diamond","tag-polished-diamond-news","tag-polished-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meyeronline.co.za\/adtec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}