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Blues Top Colored-Diamond Price Index
Aug 6, 2018 8:18 AM
By Rapaport News
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RAPAPORT... Blue fancy color diamonds continued to outshine other major color categories
in price terms during the second quarter, the Fancy Color Research Foundation
(FCRF) said.
Prices of blues climbed 6% year on year for the three
months ending June 30, according to the FCRF, which released its quarterly
Fancy Color Diamond Index (FCDI) on Monday.
By contrast, prices of pink fancy color diamonds declined 0.6%,
while yellows slid 0.7%, the organization said. The overall index for fancy color
diamonds inched up 0.5%.
Prices of stones from 1 to 3 carats increased across all
colors, but the index decreased slightly for diamonds weighing 3 carats and higher. Among
pinks, the strongest categories were 2-carat fancy pinks, 1-carat intense pinks
and 3-carat vivid pinks, the FCRF said.
The price of yellow fancy color diamonds rose 0.2% quarter
on quarter, the first time the category has seen an increase in four years.
“The demand for the 1- to 3-carat weight category remains
positive as they are relatively more affordable in their total amount compared
to 3 carats and above,” said Jim Pounds, an FCRF advisory board member.
“However, larger exceptional yellows continue to command strong prices.”
The index tracks prices of yellow,
pink and blue fancy color diamonds in Hong Kong, New York and Tel Aviv.
Correction, August 8, 2018: The FCRF’s price data relates to blue fancy color diamonds and pink fancy color diamonds, and not to fancy blue and fancy pink diamonds, as incorrectly stated in an earlier version of this article. Fancy blue and fancy pink are subsets of blue fancy color and pink fancy color.
Image: A rectangular-cut, 3.09-carat, fancy intense blue
diamond ring with a tapered baguette-cut diamond on either side. The piece sold
at Christie’s Magnificent Jewels auction in New York in April for $5.4 million.
Credit: Christie’s
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Fancy Color Diamond Index, Fancy Color Research Foundation , Fancy-Color, FCDI, FCRF, Jim Pounds, Rapaport News
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