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On this day — May 29, 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.

Thursday — a normal trading day. Weekly US initial jobless claims publish at 8:30 AM ET on Thursdays, occasionally producing intraday gold movement.

Day 149 of 365 · Q2 2025 · 40.8% through the year

May 2025 gold market: A healthy correction after the surge

Range-bound

Profit-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
Themes#correction#profit-taking#trade truce

Key events in May 2025

  1. 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.

May 29 across the years — 20202023

+12.7% over 3 years
20202023
YearMay 29 closevs prior
May 29, 2023$1,947.90+4.50%View
May 29, 2022$1,864.09-1.89%View
May 29, 2021$1,900.00+9.91%View
May 29, 2020$1,728.70View
Each row is the verified XAU/USD spot close for May 29 of that year. Click any row to open the full daily archive (with country tables for May 29, 2020+).