KARACHI: The yellow metal price in global and domestic market remained strong on demand from leading buyers while buyers kept busy in manipulating Futures price during trading session. The gold price would be remained under hands of strong manipulators by December 2016, experts opined. Gold closed at $1,341 an ounce with $5 upward variation in value as compared to previous trading session and domestic bullion price witnessed same trend. Gold in tola term up by Rs 536 a tola to close at Rs 53,025 per tola while in grammage value, gold remained firm by Rs 450 per ten grams to Rs 45,348 per ten grams, dealers said. Gold traders in India, Pakistan and leading stakeholders in other major gold buying countries were successful in controlling prices. Putting influence on current prices and Futures by hedgers, it is believed price would likely to stand firm. The potential buyers in India and Pakistan remained busy in hedging. The gold hedgers made some cautious deals from buffer stocks. The general buyers remained on sidelines anticipating further easing in price in coming days on dollar-rupee parity.