Gold Near $4,000: Inside 2025’s Historic Price Surge and the Road Ahead
Current Gold Prices and Recent Performance Gold prices remain just under the historic highs as of early November 2025, capping a year of extraordinary gains. On November 4, spot gold traded around $3,970/oz, with December futures near $3,979/oz. Just weeks earlier, on October 20, gold hit an all-time record of approximately $4,381 per ounce, before pulling back on profit-taking and improving risk sentiment. Even after dipping from the peak, gold is up over 50% since January – a stunning rise that makes 2025 one of gold’s best years on record. For context, this time last year gold was trading in