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On this day — May 18, 2025
Western wedding season: Western (especially US and European) gold and platinum jewellery demand peaks in May, June and December — combined wedding and gift seasons. US jewellery sales typically see 30–50 percent surges in these months.
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Day 138 of 365 · Q2 2025 · 37.8% through the year
May 2025 gold market: A healthy correction after the surge
Range-boundProfit-taking from overbought levels, with structural demand intact.
Gold pulled back from its April record in May — no market rises in a straight line. After the vertical run, traders locked in profits and short-term speculators exited overbought conditions, while a cooling of trade tensions revived some risk appetite. Crucially, the structural pillars — central-bank buying and strong investment demand — stayed firmly in place, keeping the dip shallow.
What drove gold in May 2025
- profit-taking after the April record
- overbought technical conditions
- easing trade tensions
- still-strong central-bank and investment demand
Key events in May 2025
- May 12US–China tariff truce revives risk appetite; gold consolidates
What happened next
Investors treated the pullback as a buying opportunity, and the uptrend resumed in June.
For gold buyers
May was a textbook healthy correction — the kind of pause that refreshes a bull market rather than ending it.