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Indian Gold Buying Season

by Fxigor

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Gold is a precious metal that is acceptable as an asset all over the world. It has a common value and is acceptable as it is throughout the world. That means you don’t have to get it converted into some other form or carry any legal paperwork (except for some cases where quantity is restricted) to take it with you while traveling. Due to this, gold is widely popular among investors as well as non-investors. 

Indian gold buying season is between October and February when people buy gold on a large scale in India, during the wedding season and the biggest festival of India, Diwali.

One of the places to look at the demand for gold, soaring at every point in time, is India. In India, gold is purchased throughout the year, with skyrocketing demands between October and February (also known as the Indian gold buying season), the Indian wedding season, and the time for India’s biggest festival Diwali. During this time, people purchase gold as it is considered auspicious. Moreover, it is a tradition to wear gold jewelry during weddings and festive seasons. Also, it is a major part of household investments in India. Due to these cultural and financial aspects, India’s demand for gold exceeds 514 tonnes every year. Just like every business has a general reserve for future needs, every household has a gold reserve for the unforeseen future. 

Why is Gold Important in Indian Weddings?

Gold is a tool to showcase wealth and is considered a blessing of Goddess Lakshmi, a symbol of wealth and fortune. Indian weddings are world-famous for their extravagant celebrations, several days long affair, and the head to toe dressing up inexpensive clothes and jewelry. The Indian parents consider it a blessing to gift gold jewelry to the bride and bridegroom as they believe it will bring good fortune to the couple. It doesn’t matter if the family is rich or poor, they purchase and gift gold to the bride and bridegroom according to their ability, but the gold has to be gifted to carry on the tradition.

It not only brings a fortunate future but also completes the Indian traditional wear. Indian traditional wear is incomplete without gold jewelry. This is why the bride wears gold as it enhances the beauty of the whole wedding outfit and the bride. Due to the reason that over 20 million weddings take place in India every year, the demand for gold is always high here and hence playing a major part in the world market of gold.

Gold Imports and Prices

India does not produce as much gold to meet its ever-growing demand. As a result, a major part of its gold demand is fulfilled by imports. And due to this high demand, the price of gold surges high in the global market, especially from October to February. It was recorded in 2017 that there was an increase in the spot gold prices due to the surge of 67% of gold demand in India, which was approximately 855 tonnes in that year.

Only Indian demand for gold cannot be the only factor responsible for the price of gold in the global market. There are several other factors like global supply and demand, inflation rates, geopolitical factors, weather, etc. Still, such a wast demand from India does cause a major impact on its prices globally. Not only this, traders and investors find it profitable to exploit the high-end demand time of gold in India. They state that buying gold in September and then selling it in October onwards results in about 80% of cases. The Moore Research Centre even highlighted this study in the year 2016.

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Other Driving Factors that Affect Gold Prices

It is clearly evident that the demand for gold in India, especially during the wedding season, majorly influences its price in the global market. But there are other factors as well that can clearly influence the gold price. These are:

  • Several countries keep gold reserves in their central banks to protect their currency in the event of inflation and become self-reliant instead of depending upon foreign exchange. The number of such gold reserves impacts the prices of gold globally.
  • The changes in interest rates in the financial market can also influence the price of gold. If the interest rate is low in the market, it results in more purchasing power in the people’s hands. Hence they can buy more gold to keep as a reserve. On the other hand, an increase in the interest rate can influence people to sell their gold and put money in the market to gain better returns. Hence this changing demand and supply affect the gold prices.
  • Since not every part of the world is rich in gold reserves and has to depend upon the imports, the duty and taxes imposed can result in changing prices of the gold. 
  • During the inflation period, people tend to keep gold as a protection tool. During inflation, a currency loses its value, but the gold remains what it is. So people use it as a factor of protecting their wealth.

Hence, it is always advised to keep an eye on all the factors apart from the Indian wedding season while planning to invest in gold.

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