Gold Nears Record Highs as Indian Investors Move From Lockers to Demat Accounts

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Indian gold demand is rotating from physical jewellery to ETFs and digital gold, with ETF assets at ₹1.91 lakh crore and MCX futures turnover up 38% m/m, even as imports collapsed 58% y/y. This signals structural demand migration rather than a demand decline. Yet September 4.6% price pullback and weak new folio openings flag fragile momentum, reinforcing sensitivity to Fed policy and the rupee.
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India's domestic gold prices rose 12% in August to ₹1,58,854 per 10 grams, tracking a 13% jump in the global benchmark to US$4,386 an ounce. Total gold ETF assets in the country climbed to about ₹1.91 lakh crore, backed by 121.3 tonnes of the metal, with year-to-date net inflows of US$4.22 billion. Average daily turnover in MCX gold futures rose 38% month on month to roughly ₹29,500 crore. Physical gold imports fell to US$2.3 billion in August, down 58% from a year earlier.