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Silver Update:
06/04/2009
By Michelle Graff
Jewelers: Need some good news?
Consider this: Despite a dismal economy that has most Americans bypassing luxury items, jewelers who responded to National Jeweler's exclusive "Profit Margins Survey" say they have been able to maintain and, in some cases, even grow their margins.
Using a variety of tactics--from investing in more profitable colored-gemstone and sterling silver jewelry to cutting deals with struggling suppliers--retailers are making the most of each and every sale they manage to ring up.
For retail jewelers, figuring out how to price pieces is a bit like trying to solve a Rubik's cube.
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06/03/2009
By Barry Petersen
China Feeling Impact Of U.S. Recession
...And they are also cutting corners across town where 1,900 workers at the Far East Gem and Jewelry factory manufacture what America wears. The problem is Americans don't want to spend as much as they used to. That means making fewer expensive gold pieces (production is down by 280,000) but making more of cheaper silver jewelry (up half a million pieces this year).
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05/27/2009
Silver Jewelry - Is It Fashion Jewelry Or Fine Jewelry
Fashion Jewelry are those that you wear with your latest dresses, go out in town wearing them, and team them with the latest designer thing in your wardrobe. Fine jewelries are those that you reserve for fine dining occasions. Exclusive club parties, wine tasting affairs, black tie affairs, weddings, etc. You know, where you really have to watch yourself and follow every etiquette rule that you know of, including using the cutlery for their right purposes. And then you have silver jewelry, which is a class apart.
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Silver Definition:
sil…ver (slvr) n.
- Symbol Ag A
- lustrous white, ductile, malleable metallic element, occurring both uncombined and in ores such as argentite, having the highest thermal and electrical conductivity of the metals. It is highly valued for jewelry, tableware, and other ornamental use and is widely used in coinage, photography, dental and soldering alloys, electrical contacts, and printed circuits. Atomic number 47; atomic weight 107.87; melting point 960.8ƒC; boiling point 2,212ƒC; specific gravity 10.50; valence 1, 2. See table at element.
- This metallic element as a commodity or medium of exchange.
- Coins made of this metallic element.
- A medal made of silver awarded to one placing second in a competition, as in the Olympics.
- Domestic articles, such as tableware, made of or plated with silver.
Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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