Higher silver demand in the world's biggest buyer may help support prices, which have fallen almost 30 per cent this year on the international market.
Gold prices zoomed to an all-time high of Rs 13,850 per 10 gram in the national capital on Wednesday as plunging stock markets and deepening global financial crisis spurred demand for the metal as a safe hedge.
To help mobilise idle gold in households.
India imports a staggering 1,000 tonnes of gold every year, draining out foreign exchange and putting pressure on the fiscal deficit.
Crude oil is not the only commodity seeing a price correction on fears of an economic slowdown. The same sentiment is driving prices of a range of important industrial metals like copper, zinc, aluminum and the precious metal gold. As a result, prices are now below what they were three months ago.
Silver also reclaimed the Rs 34,000 per kg mark.
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The yellow metal fell by Rs 115 to Rs 26,715 and silver lost Rs 400 to Rs 40,350 per kg.
In the July-September period of this year, the domestic demand improved mainly due to Diwali demand and the upcoming marriage season.
Gold in Singapore, which normally sets the price trend on the domestic front, fell by 1.4 per cent to $1,278.94 an ounce and silver by 2.8 per cent to $19.55 an ounce.
While gold surged by Rs 230 to Rs 28,480 per 10 grams, silver gained Rs 250 to Rs 44,600 per kg on increased offtake.
Both the precious metals, gold and silver, on Monday rebounded in the national capital on emergence of buying at existing lower levels amid a firm trend in the Asian region.
RBI has already advised banks to stop selling gold coins.
The precious metals continued its uninterrupted rally.
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Traders caution that branded jewellery customers may start opting for substitutes as high prices of previous metals and stones have already made buying any luxury items unaffordable for most of the middle class.
Tariff value is the base price on which the customs duty is determined to prevent under -- invoicing.
Tariff value is the base price on which the customs duty is determined to prevent under -invoicing.
Gold prices have dropped, but still they are above 70 per cent of the peak value.
The total sales volumes of gold for 2012 stood at Rs 2.47 lakh crore (Rs 2.47 trillion) and total quantity of gold sold in the country was 864 tonnes, Vipin Sharma, Director (Jewellery) WGC told reporters in Kochi.
Traders said sentiment turned bearish on emergence of stockists selling at existing higher levels amid weak global trend as improving economic growth reduced demand for the precious metals as an alternate investment.
Hallmarking will guarantee the purity or fineness of the precious metal.
The government on Friday slashed the import tariff value of gold to $535 per 10 gram and reduced the rate for silver marginally to $1,003 per kg due to weakening global prices of precious metals.
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Traders said emergence of buying at existing lower levels to meet the ongoing marriage season demand mainly led to recovery in gold prices.
Gold on Thursday slipped from record highs by losing Rs 200 to Rs 30,200 per 10 grams in the national capital due to meagre demand for the precious metal at prevailing high levels.
Discounting the argument that gold is a hedge against inflation, the senior-most Deputy Governor wondered how a hedge instrument can offer as high as 37 per cent return year after year.
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Gold prices on Thursday rose to all-time high of Rs 29,695 per 10 grams in the billion market here as investors shifted funds from melting equity markets to the precious metal, considered as a safe-haven investment.
The Reserve Bank, in Annual Monetary Policy Statement, has also asked banks to set up internal exposure limits for those non-banking financial companies who have gold loans portfolio of more than 50 per cent of the total financial assets.
The tariff value of silver has, however, been hiked marginally to $1062 a kg
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