Sankaran Naren, Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund, has cautioned investors against treating silver as a long-term asset class, saying the white metal behaves more like a small-cap stock and carries significantly higher risk. Speaking at the MFD Galaxy 16th Knowledge Summit 2026, Naren said that while silver can deliver…
Gold-silver ratio: The gold-silver ratio, a key metric tracked by bullion investors, is trending higher amid the geopolitical tensions, given investors’ inclination to park money in gold rather than silver during periods of acute stress. The Middle East conflict, though, has challenged the traditional status that gold and silver enjoy. Both precious metals have remained…
Crude oil prices are on a boil, and have emerged as a big headache for the Indian economy and also the stock market investors. The prices have jumped to their highest level in four years as the conflict in the The Middle East has resulted in supply disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz, which accounts…
The demand for gold and silver has largely remained subdued throughout this week as a strengthening US dollar and concerns over a delay in US interest rate cuts have capped prices, even as tensions in the Middle East remained elevated. The April futures contract on COMEX gold dropped $59 to the day’s low of $5,066…
Gold Rate Today: The yellow metal fell slightly on Wednesday amid mixed global signals, amid concerns about the US-Iran conflict. On Wednesday, 11 March, MCX Gold April futures fell by 0.25% at ₹1,62,900 per 10 grams around 10:19 am, while MCX Silver May contracts declined by 0.67% at ₹₹2,76,000 per kg. According to India Bullions…
Gold and silver prices declined in both international and domestic markets on Monday, even as crude oil prices surged amid escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East due to the ongoing US-Iran war. In the global market, spot gold price fell 1.7% to $5,082.51 per ounce, while US gold futures for April delivery dropped 1.4%…
Gold vs silver: When conflicts strike and the geopolitical situation turns dire, investors often flock to precious metals like gold and silver. Ideally, the recent war between the US and Iran should have elicited the same reaction. But this time the playbook has flipped. Gold prices have indeed risen, but silver has taken a knock….
For instance, both metals peaked on 29 January, when 10 grams of gold touched ₹1.75 lakh and silver approached ₹3.8 lakh per kg. From those peaks, gold and silver fell 15% and 36%, respectively, to their lows for the year as investors began questioning valuations after the record rally. Source
The Middle East conflict, involving the United States and Israel against Iran, has sparked a severe risk-off mood globally. This initially resulted in the sharp rise in demand for safe-haven assets like gold and silver, but the uptrend has remained. Gold prices in the domestic spot market have risen by ₹3400 to ₹1,62,029 on a…
Gold-silver ratio: Silver did outperform gold in the last year, but when times get tough, the yellow metal emerges as the ultimate winner. The recent conflict in the Middle East underscores this trend. At the time US and Israel are attacking Iran, and the Islamic state is responding with full force, gold prices are retaining…
