"The idea is to have both run seven Diamond League meets, possibly even eight with a couple of a match-ups between the two throughout the year, " Wetmore addded.
Presumably therefore MPs will want to hear from Mr Diamond whether he felt Mr Tucker was being sympathetic to the idea that Barclays should misleadingly claim that it could borrow more cheaply than was true.
Donald Palmieri, a gem certifier and market analyst (and source of the pricing data used in the chart), is skeptical of the idea, and not only because he was himself burned in the 1981 diamond crash.