The gold price in global and domestic market retained value on improved Gold Future speculations on general prices however less volumes were traded, metal traders said. Meanwhile business activity remained Gold Future speculative on basis of gold manipulation by leading traders and output outlook during the trading session. Hedging remained on short term basis. The gold price would be remained under leading hands till end January 2019, metal experts opined. Gold closed at $1,240 an ounce with $10 upward variation in value as compared to previous trading session and domestic bullion price witnessed same trend. Gold in tola term up by Rs 434 a tola to close at Rs 64,537 per tola while in grammage value, gold remained firm by Rs 373 per ten grams to Rs 55,389 per ten grams, metal traders said. Published in Daily Times, December 5th 2018.