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On this day — January 27, 2025

Chinese New Year: Chinese gold demand surges in the lead-up to Lunar New Year as families exchange gold pendants, rings and bars. Year-on-year, China's January–February gold imports run 30–50 percent above other months.

Monday — typically a high-volume trading day as markets digest weekend news. Asian gold imports often see Monday surges in major demand countries.

Day 27 of 365 · Q1 2025 · 7.4% through the year

January 2025 gold market: Record run resumes on rate-cut hopes

Bullish

Rate-cut expectations and central-bank demand reignited the record run.

Gold opened 2025 strongly as markets positioned for future Fed rate cuts and a new US administration brought immediate policy and tariff uncertainty. Falling rate expectations pressure bond yields and the dollar while making non-yielding gold more attractive — and continued record central-bank buying reinforced the bid from day one.

What drove gold in January 2025

  • Fed rate-cut expectations
  • record central-bank buying
  • geopolitical and policy uncertainty
  • weaker-dollar positioning
Themes#Fed rate cuts#central-bank demand#policy uncertainty

Key events in January 2025

  1. Jan 20Trump inaugurated; tariff threats lift safe-haven and hedging demand

What happened next

Persistent inflation worries and accumulating institutional demand kept the uptrend intact into February.

For gold buyers

January set the tone for a historic year — with rate cuts expected and central banks buying relentlessly, gold's path of least resistance was higher.

Jan 27 across the years — 20212024

+10.0% over 3 years
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YearJan 27 closevs prior
Jan 27, 2024$2,026.90+9.98%View
Jan 27, 2021$1,843.00View
Each row is the verified XAU/USD spot close for Jan 27 of that year. Click any row to open the full daily archive (with country tables for Jan 27, 2021+).