Gold fell to 4,199.97 USD/t.oz on December 2, 2025, down 0.75% from the previous day. Over the past month, Gold's price has risen 4.93%, and is up 58.92% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. Gold - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on December of 2025.

In 2024, one troy ounce of gold had an annual average price of ******** U.S. dollars. Gold pricing determinants Gold is a metal that is considered malleable, ductile, and is known for its bright lustrous yellow color. This transition metal is highly valued as a precious metal for its use in coins, jewelry, and in investments. Gold was also once used as a standard for monetary policies between different countries. The price of gold is determined by daily fixings where participants agree to buy or sell at a set price or to maintain the price through supply and demand control. For gold, companies like Barclays Capital, Scotia-Mocatta, Sociétè Générale, HSBC, and Deutsche Bank are members in gold fixing at the London Bullion Market Association.

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Gold prices, recently at $3,057.31, may drop to $1,820 due to supply-demand dynamics, interest rates, and new mines, says Morningstar's David Sekera.

As of May 2025, the London (morning fixing) price of an ounce of gold cost an average of ******** U.S. dollars, a slight increase compared to the average monthly morning fixing price of ******** U.S. dollars per ounce in the previous month.

London fixing gold price In January 2020, the average price for an ounce of fine gold was ******** U.S. dollars. It increased to ******** U.S. dollars as of April 2022. Although the monthly price for fine gold fluctuates, the average annual price of fine gold is gradually increasing. In 2001, the price for one ounce of gold was *** U.S. dollars, and by 2012 the price had risen to some ***** U.S. dollars. By 2024, the annual average gold price was nearly ***** dollars per ounce. In that year, global gold demand reached ******* metric tons worldwide. Price determinants of fine gold Fine gold is considered to be almost pure gold, where the value of the metal depends on the percentage of fineness. Twenty-four-carat gold is considered fine gold (from 99.9 percent gold by mass and higher). The London Gold Fix acts as a benchmark for the price of gold. The price of gold is set by the members of the London Gold Market Fixing Ltd undertaken by Barclays and its other members. The price is determined twice per business day at 10:30 am and 3:00 pm based on the London bullion market to settle contracts within the bullion market. The price is based on the equilibrium point between supply and demand agreed upon by participating banks. Gold prices must remain flexible, and gold fixing provides an instantaneous price at specified times.

Gold prices in , October, 2025 For that commodity indicator, we provide data from January 1960 to October 2025. The average value during that period was 615.3 USD per troy ounce with a minimum of 34.94 USD per troy ounce in January 1970 and a maximum of 4058.33 USD per troy ounce in October 2025. | TheGlobalEconomy.com

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Gold. A precious item with its own duality. In one side, it's a popular investment asset. In another side, it's a commodity. Whether you buy it as an asset or as commodity, the price for gold is always influenced by two things, as similar as other commodities in market: supply and demand. It's not easy to combine many aspects in supply and demand into a single dataset without making it into wall of columns. And also aggregating the data might not easy to do, since the data might not available publicly. But it doesn't mean we can't learn the historical pattern of gold market. At least some gold price historical data are available for public. And we can use that to analyze the market pattern, and, maybe, learn something from them.

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This dataset was based on gold price historical data from macrotrends.net. I added one new column, 'Year Range Price', to see how wide the spread of the price annually.

Acknowledgements

The base data for this dataset was retrieved from https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-year-chart.

Inspiration

What variable have the biggest correlation with annual Average Closing Price? What information can we see from the graphic? Are there any reasons why the price drop and rise? What happened on those years? Many things can be learn and explore by historical data. Having historical data is like having a kaleidoscope to see the past, learn from them, and use it as information to walk on our future path.

The price of gold per troy ounce increased considerably between 1990 and 2025, despite some fluctuations. A troy ounce is the international common unit of weight used for precious metals and is approximately **** grams. At the end of 2024, a troy ounce of gold cost ******* U.S. dollars. As of * June 2025, it increased considerably to ******** U.S. dollars. Price of – additional information In 2000, the price of gold was at its lowest since 1990, with a troy ounce of gold costing ***** U.S. dollars in that year. Since then, gold prices have been rising and after the economic crisis of 2008, the price of gold rose at higher rates than ever before as the market began to see gold as an increasingly good investment. History has shown, gold is seen as a good investment in times of uncertainty because it can or is thought to function as a good store of value against a declining currency as well as providing protection against inflation. However, unlike other commodities, once gold is mined it does not get used up like other commodities (for example, such as gasoline). So while gold may be a good investment at times, the supply demand argument does not apply to gold. Nonetheless, the demand for gold has been mostly consistent.

In February 2023, gold was valued at $54.5M per ton (CIF, South Africa) with a 2.1% decrease compared to the previous month.

This January marked the 150th anniversary of a major event in American history: the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, California. Fittingly, gold made news again this year by dropping past $300 an ounce to hit its lowest price in nearly two decades. While some of the subject’s interest undoubtedly springs from an almost voyeuristic fascination with the precious metal itself, gold prices are nonetheless legitimate news, since they are considered harbingers of stability or future inflation. Careful observers’ acquaintance with the gold market’s particular twists, turns, and idiosyncrasies gives them a more reasoned understanding of its uses as an economic indicator. This Economic Commentary takes the confluence of historical and current events as an excuse to refine our understanding of gold, gold prices, and inflation.

Gold Prices - Historical chart and current data through 2025.

Dataset of historical annual gold prices from 1970 to 2024, including significant events and acts that impacted gold prices.

The average monthly prices for gold increased worldwide between January 2014 and May 2025, although with some fluctuations. In January 2014, the average monthly price for gold worldwide stood at ******** nominal U.S. dollars per troy ounce. Significant jumps in the gold prices were observed, especially in the periods of uncertainty, as the investors tend to see gold as a safe investment option. For instance, the Corona pandemic acted as a shock to the economy, resulting in substantial increases in gold prices in 2020. As of May 2025, gold valued at ******** U.S. dollars per ounce, the highest value reported during this period.

This statistic depicts the average annual prices for gold from 2014 to 2024 with a forecast until 2026. In 2024, the average price for gold stood at 2,388 U.S. dollars per troy ounce, the highest value recorded throughout the period considered. In 2026, the average gold price is expected to increase, reaching 3,200 U.S. dollars per troy ounce.

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Historically, gold had been used as a form of currency in various parts of the world including the USA. In present times, precious metals like gold are held with central banks of all countries to guarantee re-payment of foreign debts, and also to control inflation which results in reflecting the financial strength of the country. Recently, emerging world economies, such as China, Russia, and India have been big buyers of gold, whereas the USA, SoUSA, South Africa, and Australia are among the big seller of gold.

Forecasting rise and fall in the daily gold rates can help investors to decide when to buy (or sell) the commodity. But Gold prices are dependent on many factors such as prices of other precious metals, prices of crude oil, stock exchange performance, Bonds prices, currency exchange rates, etc.

The challenge of this project is to accurately predict the future adjusted closing price of Gold ETF across a given period of time in the future. The problem is a regression problem, because the output value which is the adjusted closing price in this project is continuous value.

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Data for this study is collected from November 18th 2011 to January 1st 2019 from various sources. The data has 1718 rows in total and 80 columns in total. Data for attributes, such as Oil Price, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) 500 index, Dow Jones Index US Bond rates (10 years), Euro USD exchange rates, prices of precious metals Silver and Platinum and other metals such as Palladium and Rhodium, prices of US Dollar Index, Eldorado Gold Corporation and Gold Miners ETF were gathered.

The dataset has 1718 rows in total and 80 columns in total. Data for attributes, such as Oil Price, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) 500 index, Dow Jones Index US Bond rates (10 years), Euro USD exchange rates, prices of precious metals Silver and Platinum and other metals such as Palladium and Rhodium, prices of US Dollar Index, Eldorado Gold Corporation and Gold Miners ETF were gathered.

The historical data of Gold ETF fetched from Yahoo finance has 7 columns, Date, Open, High, Low, Close, Adjusted Close, and Volume, the difference between Adjusted Close and Close is that the closing price of a stock is the price of that stock at the close of the trading day. Whereas the adjusted closing price takes into account factors such as dividends, stock splits, and new stock offerings to determine a value. So, Adjusted Close is the outcome variable which is the value you have to predict.

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Acknowledgements

The data is collected from Yahoo finance.

Inspiration

Can you predict Gold prices accurately using traditional machine learning algorithms

In August 2022, the gold price stood at $56.6K per kg (FOB, Australia), falling by -2% against the previous month.

Between January 1971 and May 2025, gold had average annual returns of **** percent, which was only slightly more than the return of commodities, with an annual average of around eight percent. The annual return of gold was over ** percent in 2024. What is the total global demand for gold? The global demand for gold remains robust owing to its historical importance, financial stability, and cultural appeal. During economic uncertainty, investors look for a safe haven, while emerging markets fuel jewelry demand. A distinct contrast transpired during COVID-19, when the global demand for gold experienced a sharp decline in 2020 owing to a reduction in consumer spending. However, the subsequent years saw an increase in demand for the precious metal. How much gold is produced worldwide? The production of gold depends mainly on geological formations, market demand, and the cost of production. These factors have a significant impact on the discovery, extraction, and economic viability of gold mining operations worldwide. In 2024, the worldwide production of gold was expected to reach *** million ounces, and it is anticipated that the rate of growth will increase as exploration technologies improve, gold prices rise, and mining practices improve.

The Egyptian gold market dropped to $X in 2021, reducing by -13% against the previous year. Over the period under review, consumption saw a abrupt descent. As a result, consumption reached the peak level of $X. From 2017 to 2021, the growth of the market remained at a lower figure.

Dataset Card for Sentiment Analysis of Commodity News (Gold)

This is a news dataset for the commodity market which has been manually annotated for 10,000+ news headlines across multiple dimensions into various classes. The dataset has been sampled from a period of 20+ years (2000-2021). The dataset was curated by Ankur Sinha and Tanmay Khandait and is detailed in their paper "Impact of News on the Commodity Market: Dataset and Results." It is currently published by the authors on… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/SaguaroCapital/sentiment-analysis-in-commodity-market-gold.

The Mexican gold market contracted notably to $X in 2021, falling by -18.1% against the previous year. In general, consumption showed a noticeable curtailment. As a result, consumption reached the peak level of $X. From 2017 to 2021, the growth of the market remained at a somewhat lower figure.