Gold Price Today: Yellow metal remains resilient, trades at Rs 89,750/10 gms; silver above Rs 1 lakh/kg
Silver May futures were trading around Rs 1,01,500/kg, up by 0.18% or Rs 187.
On Thursday, gold and silver settled on a positive note in the domestic and international markets. Gold June futures contract settled at Rs 89,305 per 10 grams with a gain of 1.01% and silver May futures contract settled at Rs 1,01,313 per kilogram with a gain of 1.84%.
Gold and silver skyrocketed amid safe-haven buying due to U.S. trade tariff uncertainties in the global economy. The U.S. imposed tariff of 25% on the import of automobiles and which increased worries about the implementation of reciprocal tariffs from 2nd April.
Global equity markets were mixed to negative and supported safe-haven buying for precious metals. Gold prices hit lifetime highs and are inching closer to $3,100 per troy ounce levels and silver prices crossed $35 per troy ounce levels and hit 13-year highs.
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The U.S. economic data released on Thursday were mixed; the reading of final GDP was slightly better, but jobless claims increased once again.
Today, the US Dollar Index, DXY, was hovering near the 104.29 mark, gaining 0.03 or 0.03%.
“We expect gold and silver prices to remain volatile in today’s session amid volatility in the dollar index and the US trade war but gold and silver could hold its support levels of $3,040 and $33.40 per troy ounce levels respectively on a weekly closing basis,” said Manoj Kumar Jain of Prithvifinmart Commodity Research.
Gold and silver prices could show further strength due to tariff uncertainties, he
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