Gold Historical Price

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Gold Price Forecast 2026–2027: What the Major Banks Are Predicting

Gold entered 2026 riding one of its strongest bull runs in decades. After gaining roughly 65% in 2025, its best annual performance since 1979, the metal set a new all-time high above $5,500 per ounce in January 2026. What happened next surprised many: prices pulled back sharply in March, falling more than 10% in a single month, the steepest monthly decline since 2013.

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Gold Price History: Key Events of the Last 50 Years

For most of the 20th century, gold's price wasn't really a "price" at all in the way we think of one today. It was a fixed legal rate, set by governments rather than markets. That changed in 1971, and what followed is one of the more instructive case studies in how geopolitics, inflation, and investor psychology interact to move an asset's price over time.