{"id":92013,"date":"2009-12-21T09:28:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-next-rally-luxury-jewelry-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-21T09:28:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:28:27","slug":"luxury-jewelry-comes-surging-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/92013","title":{"rendered":"Luxury Jewelry Comes Surging Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b06d0e20000000000e7a6bb\" border=\"0\" alt=\"wedding ring diamond engagement marry marriage bride finacee\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Surprise: gaudy, expensive jewelry is coming back:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/upscale-jewelry-shows-surprising-signs-of-life-2009-12-18?link=kiosk\">Marketwatch<\/a>: As retailers across the board are still struggling to get consumers to spend beyond what they need, affluent consumers are giving a troubled sector &#8212; jewelry &#8212; a ray of hope.<\/p>\n<p>Average jewelry spending by shoppers with minimum household incomes of $100,000 jumped 31%, to $4,813, in the third quarter from a year earlier, compared against declines of more than 30% each for clothing and for fashion accessories including shoes and handbags, according to Pam Danziger, president of Unity Marketing. The consultancy surveyed 1,000 luxury shoppers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/upscale-jewelry-shows-surprising-signs-of-life-2009-12-18?link=kiosk\">Read the whole thing &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-next-rally-luxury-jewelry-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/diamonds-arent-forever-zales-stock-tanks-after-weak-november-sales-2009-12\">Diamond&#8217;s Aren&#8217;t Forever: Zales Stock Tanks After Weak November Sales<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/2009\/1\/jewelry-buyers-overwhelmed-by-madoff-related-gems-like-expensive-shrapnel\">Madoff Victims Pawning Jewels To Eat, Overwhelming Jewelers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/2008\/6\/hip-hop-bling-man-jacob-the-jeweler-gets-2-5-years\">Hip-Hop Bling Man Jacob the Jeweler Gets 2.5 Years<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/lNl8CCaWTtk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise: gaudy, expensive jewelry is coming back: Marketwatch: As retailers across the board are still struggling to get consumers to spend beyond what they need, affluent consumers are giving a troubled sector &#8212; jewelry &#8212; a ray of hope. Average jewelry spending by shoppers with minimum household incomes of $100,000 jumped 31%, to $4,813, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}