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Christopher Wood, global head of equity strategy at Jefferies expects gold prices to hit $6,600/oz going ahead, up 57 per cent from the current levels.

Gold prices are likely to witness some consolidation in the domestic markets next week as investors brace for a series of key central bank meetings and global trade developments, analysts said. Investors will keenly follow the US Federal Reserve's (Fed) policy outcome and remarks from Fed Chair Jerome Powell for cues on the interest rate decision. The US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping's meeting in South Korea, and the European Central Bank's policy review on Thursday are also expected to steer the trajectory of precious metal prices, they added. "Gold prices closed in negative for the first time in ten trading weeks, on profit-booking at recent tops, weakening physical demand in Asian centres like India & China, and further weighed by a stronger US dollar," Pranav Mer, Vice President, EBG -- Commodity & Currency Research, JM Financial Services Ltd, said. He said physical demand in India weakened in the latter part of the week as buyers trimmed ...

At the peak of the last secular bull market in gold in January 1980, Wood said, gold price was then equivalent to 9.9 per cent of US disposable income per capita which stood at $8,551

Average consumer price index inflation in the South Asian country is 8.7% in the current financial year, which started in July, the statistics bureau says

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In dollar terms, gold prices hit $2,331/oz at the end of H1-CY24, according to WGC data, rising 12.1 per cent during this period

In Delhi, Bengaluru, and Chennai, the price of ten grams of 22-carat gold stood at Rs 66,340, Rs 66,190, and Rs 66,960, respectively

On the other hand, gold prices have seen a rise in the last few months amid steady demand, especially from the global central banks

Days after US data revealed cooler-than-expected consumer-price growth, the UK, Canada and Japan will all publish numbers for April that are likely to go in the same direction

A key Japanese central bank report said Monday that sentiment among big manufacturers has sagged but that optimism is at a three-decade high among large business outside the manufacturing sector. The Bank of Japan's tankan report said sentiment among large manufacturers, which include auto and electronics giants, declined in March for the first time in a year, standing at plus 11, down two points from December. The average market forecast by Japanese news service Kyodo was 9. The index for large-scale non-manufacturers, including the service sector, hit a 33-year high at plus 34 points, up two points from the last report in December. The tankan, carried out every three months, surveys about 9,000 Japanese companies and measures corporate sentiment by subtracting the number of companies saying business conditions are negative from those saying they are positive. The optimism among the non-manufacturing businesses reflects the return of tourism, both overseas and domestic, which had

The International Monetary Fund's latest round of forecasts highlights the divergence: an improved US outlook, worse prospects for the euro zone and miserable figures for the UK

The report is based on the biggest government bond markets in Europe

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