1 Monetary policy involves influencing the supply and demand for money through interest rates and other monetary tools.  Monetary policy is usually conducted by the Central Bank, e.g. UK â Bank of England, US â Federal Reserve.
The biggest yellow diamond, a 100-carat one, was sold in Geneva for $16.3 million. A private buyer acquired the Graff Vivid Yellow at a Geneva jewellery sale in Sotheby's auction house. Reuters reported that it was a world record for the jewellery auction of a yellow diamond, according to David Bennett, the chairman of Sotheby's Switzerland.
A small, embattled diamond miner just hit the jackpot. The 910-carat stone found by Gem Diamonds Ltd. high in the mountains of Lesotho in southern Africa is the fifth-largest in history. Here are the bigger ones: Excelsior Diamond Famed for its bluish-white color, the 995-carat Excelsior was found by a worker shoveling gravel at the Jagersfontein Mine in South Africa in 1893.