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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Gold makes a steady start for 2017

Gold and silver were trading flat with marginal gains in early trade on the first day of Calendar 2017 due to lack of global cues amid subdued buying by jewellers, investors and industries.

The yellow metal was trading 0.20 per cent, or Rs 56, higher at Rs 27,501 per 10 gm at around 10.30 am (IST), while the white metal was trading 0.26 per cent, or Rs 103, higher at Rs 39,152 per 1 kg on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX).


However, silver declined by Rs 100 to Rs 39,300 per kg owing to reduced offtake by industrial units.

Traders said absence of cues from global markets which are closed, mainly kept gold prices unaltered here.

In the national capital, gold of 99.9 and 99.5 per cent purity ruled flat at Rs 28,300 and Rs 28,150 per 10 grams, respectively. It had lost Rs 200 on the last trading session of 2016 on Saturday.

SMC Investment and Advisors in a research note said, “Gold can move in the Rs 27,300-27,500 per 10 gm range while silver can move in the Rs 38,700-39,400 range in the near term.”

Gold prices eased on Friday as gains from a weak dollar was offset by profit taking at the end of a year in which bullion gained about more than 8 per cent, snapping three years of declines.

Director of RSBL, Prithviraj Kothari is of the view that since Gold prices tumbled to 10-month lows on December 15 after the Fed hiked interest rates, this signaled could be an expected rise in rates more quickly than previously anticipated in 2017.

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