Natural diamonds have lost more than half of their value over the past five years. Several drivers are conspiring against diamonds, including a glut of mined stones that hit the market over the past ...

Diamond buyers today face a decision that didn’t meaningfully exist a decade ago: lab-grown or natural. Both are real diamonds — same chemical composition, same hardness, same brilliance — but they ...

Diamond giant De Beers slashed the price of its precious solitaires amid plunging sales as bargain-hunting fiancées increasingly opt for cheaper lab-grown gems. Among De Beers’ larger stones, one ...

Diamonds have long been the ultimate symbol of love and commitment, their sparkling brilliance forever linked to life’s most emotional moments. Thanks to decades of marketing genius—most notably from ...

But the market has seemingly made up its mind, at least when it comes to adornment. Allied Market Research valued the synthetic-diamond industry at $24 billion as recently as 2022, but in May, De ...

Lab-grown diamond brand, Lightbox, has permanently reduced its prices to as low as $500 per carat, from a previous price of $800 per carat, for the brand’s standard range of lab-grown diamonds, De ...

It’s hard to believe, but people once seriously argued whether it was inevitable that lab-grown diamond prices would go down. At this point, the general direction is pretty clear, even if the ...

ZHENGZHOU, China―Around 70% of the 2 million carats of lab-grown diamonds produced annually at Feng Canjun’s factory ...

Scientists discovered the ability to create synthetic diamonds back in 1954, and we've been arguing about them ever since. Not only about whether a man-made gemstone could be considered the same as ...