The Fancy Color Research Foundation (FCRF) has announced the results of the Fancy Color Diamond Index (FCDI) for Q3 2020. After two long quarters, due to COVID-19 restrictions, FCRF was unable to conduct a price survey. FCRF has now published the first index for 2020: Fancy Color prices slid by 0.7%, however, with transactions picking up in Q3 2020, the FCDI displayed a general stability in relation to this chaotic period.
On the whole, pink and blue diamonds prices decreased by 0.8% in Q3 2020.While Yellow diamonds presented the lowest decrease in Q3 of -0.3%. The FCRF said that while diamond trading is not yet fully back to pre-COVID ‘normalcy’, there was increasing transaction activity in fancy color diamond and that it expected the business environment to improve further by 2021.
Source: Rough & polished
On the whole, pink and blue diamonds prices decreased by 0.8% in Q3 2020.While Yellow diamonds presented the lowest decrease in Q3 of -0.3%. The FCRF said that while diamond trading is not yet fully back to pre-COVID ‘normalcy’, there was increasing transaction activity in fancy color diamond and that it expected the business environment to improve further by 2021.
Source: Rough & polished
