Gold Rate Today: With so many platforms offering enormous discounts and other benefits, people are looking forward to the upcoming festivals and buying gifts and other products. Additionally, given the minor decline in the price of both gold and silver, it may be a good moment to purchase decorations made of these precious metals. The favoured form of money throughout the world has been gold, from prehistoric times to the present. Gold is mostly purchased by investors as a hedge against inflation and political instability due to its low correlations with other asset types.
Gold Rate Today: Who import gold?
India doesn’t extract gold from the ground. Indeed, locations that were once used for gold mining, like Kolar in Karnataka, are now closed. Thus, practically all of India’s needs for gold are imported. The price of 22 carats of gold in India is determined using import gold prices. Numerous companies import gold into India. The majority of these are some of the best banks in the public and private sectors, as well as numerous private businesses. In actuality, over the past few years, the number of private companies has increased as well. Among the banks that import gold are State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India, and Bank of India.
Gold Rate Today: Checkout the rates on MCX
Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are generally the simplest and safest ways to invest in gold. Each share of these securities represents a fixed amount of gold, and you can easily purchase or sell them in your brokerage or retirement account. Because of their low cost and low minimum investment requirements, gold mutual funds and ETFs are an excellent choice for new investors. Gold futures with a February 5, 2024 maturity date were trading at Rs 61393 per 10 grams on the MCX, down 0.18 percent. Silver futures, which expire on March 5, 2024, loss 0.78 percent and were trading at Rs 70180 per kg on the MCX.
Price of gold in some major cities
| Name of cities | Prices of 22k gold in rupees |
| Delhi | 57050 |
| Kerala | 56950 |
| Pune | 56950 |
| Lucknow | 57050 |
| Patna | 57050 |
| Nagpur | 56950 |
| Chandigarh | 56950 |
| Surat | 57050 |
| Bhubaneswar | 57050 |
| Mumbai | 56950 |
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