Gold-Futures speculations and insignificant buying by leading buyers kept metal prices under technical correction while buyers in international and domestic market made cautious deals on Futures Gold speculations, metal traders said. The metal dealers said the commodity has been witnessing continuous technical correction and price trend since last some weeks with some recession closing in green on improvement. But all depends on Futures outlook of hedgers and gold speculators who are controlling over baseline value of metal, said metal experts. Gold prices would likely come into firm zone during next couple of weeks on private buyers and retailers’ demand. The gold trading closed at $1,243 an ounce in international market with $3 an ounce downward change in price. In domestic market yellow metal shed Rs 380 per tola to stay at Rs 64,847 per tola while in term of grammage it close at Rs 55,651 per ten grams with a loss of Rs 283 per ten grams, traders said. Published in Daily Times, December 14th 2018.