{"id":35418,"date":"2026-01-10T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35418"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:04:28","slug":"gold-silver-prices-rise-for-second-straight-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35418","title":{"rendered":"Gold, silver prices rise for second straight day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Gold and silver prices continued their upward trend for a second consecutive day on Saturday in both international and domestic markets.<\/p>\n<p>In the international bullion market, the price of gold rose by $37 per ounce to reach $4,509, prompting a corresponding increase in local bullion rates.<\/p>\n<p>In Pakistan\u2019s domestic markets, the price of 24-carat gold increased by Rs3,700 per tola, taking the rate to Rs472,262. The price of 10 grams of gold rose by Rs3,172 to Rs405,745.<\/p>\n<p>Silver prices also recorded gains. The price of silver increased by Rs270 per tola to Rs8,465, while the rate for 10 grams rose by Rs232 to Rs7,257.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0Staples, energy push SPI up by 3.2%<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the week ended January 8, 2026, increased by 3.20% year-on-year (YoY), underscoring the continued pressure on household budgets, amid persistent food and energy inflation.<\/p>\n<p>The SPI, which tracks weekly price movements of 51 essential commodities across 50 markets in 17 cities, is a key gauge of short-term inflationary trends.<\/p>\n<p>On a week-on-week (WoW) basis, the SPI rose by 0.12%, reflecting broad-based price increases across consumption quintiles. The WoW inflation was marginally higher for lower- and middle-income groups: Quintile 1 (0.12%), Q2 (0.13%), Q3 (0.13%) and Q4 (0.13%), while the highest-income quintile \u2013 Q5 \u2013 saw a slightly lower inflation growth of 0.11%.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0Foreign reserves rise $141m to $21.19b<\/p>\n<p>On a YoY basis, the inflationary pressure was most pronounced for Q2 (3.65%) and Q3 (3.43%), indicating the disproportionate stress on lower-middle and middle-income households, compared to Q1 (2.42%) and Q5 (2.58%).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold and silver prices continued their upward trend for a second consecutive day on Saturday in both international and domestic markets. In the international bullion market, the price of gold rose by $37 per ounce to reach $4,509, prompting a corresponding increase in local bullion rates. In Pakistan\u2019s domestic markets, the price of 24-carat gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}