Silver also zoomed Rs 926 to Rs 70,205 per kilogram.
“Gold price continues to trade higher, helped by a softer dollar,” Navneet Damani, Senior VP – Commodity Research at
, said. In the international market, gold was trading higher at USD 1,807.60 per ounce while silver was up at USD 24.19 per ounce. “Comex gold prices rose in the Asian trading hours supported by a softer dollar, although trading was thin after the long Christmas weekend,” an analyst at HDFC Securities said.