 "1,440 diamond buyers take delivery on ICEX")
Indian Commodity Exhange (ICEX), the world's first diamond derivatives exchange, successfully completed its first-ever diamond futures contracts settlement on November 3, with participation from 1,440 retailers who took delivery of 27 carats of polished diamond worth Rs 83 lakh. At present, around 40 carats of diamonds are lying in the exchange vaults.
ICEX had commenced operations on August 28 this year with the launch of three-monthly diamond futures contracts, with expiry on November 2017, December 2017 and January 2018.
"During the expiry, we have seen a complete convergence of spot and futures price -- one of the important features of the derivatives
