Yellow metal price in domestic and international market closed in upper bracket as leading stakeholders and hedgers kept manipulating ready-market physical prices, metal traders said. Hedgers made deals on long term basis and on output report that could determine Futures of Gold and bottom-line prices, metal dealers said. Spot gold was quoted at $1,246 an ounce with $1 upward correction. However leading players provided strength to physical prices on Futures speculative. The correction in spot gold price in future would influence general prices, metal traders said. Domestic bullion price also witnessed same trend. Gold in tola term up by Rs 224 per tola to close at Rs 64,849 per tola while in grammage value, gold remained up by Rs 193 ten grams to close at Rs 55,657 per ten grams, dealers said. Trading remained according to physical demand while secondary buyers kept waiting for gold price to go lower before coming out of output report. We can expect prices to be largely confined to a similar kind of range, said a senior member of Karachi Gold Market Association. Hedgers made forward deals, keeping in view gold Futures price during trading session. Gold price would remain under leading manipulators in India, Pakistan and other major gold buying countries, as they busy influencing current prices and gold Futures. The gold hedgers made deals for secondary selling. The general buyers remained on sidelines anticipating easing in price in coming days on dollar-rupee parity. Buyers made deals according to their immediate needs. Local trading in gold remained dull on back of insignificant buying on less liquidity. Published in Daily Times, December 12th 2018.