The gold spot price in US Dollars (USD) is the global benchmark from which all other currency prices are derived - updated continuously across international markets, 24 hours a day.
USD • Source: twelvedata
Per troy ounce
Dollar gold recovered on Monday, leaving the US local price higher. By 08:48 GMT, spot was up about 0.7% near $4,098 per ounce as the dollar index eased and oil fell, trimming bond yields. The currency leg doesn’t apply domestically, so the lift came via softer Treasury yields and a modest pullback in the dollar after Friday’s spike. Reuters put the dollar index down roughly 0.3% around 101.9, while Brent slipped as Washington signalled restraint on Iran, and US yields edged lower alongside the move in energy. (uk.finance.yahoo.com)
Stateside, Friday’s stronger-than-expected jobs report kept December Fed hike odds alive, but Monday’s session belonged to the global dollar price as markets reset into Tuesday’s inflation test. With oil easing and yields dipping, bullion simply retraced some of Friday’s losses. (axios.com)
Next up: October CPI on Tuesday, 10 November, at 08:30 ET - a key data point for Fed expectations and, by extension, US gold. (bls.gov)
The gold price in US dollars is not just one country's local rate. It is the global benchmark - the single reference rate from which every other currency's gold price is derived. When London fixes the price at 10:30 AM, when COMEX futures settle, when a central bank values its reserves - the number used is always XAU expressed in USD. On GoldPrice.Live, that is exactly what is shown above: the live XAU to USD rate per troy ounce, sourced directly from global market data and updated continuously as trading moves.
XAU is the ISO 4217 currency code for gold - the same standardised code system that gives us USD for the US dollar, GBP for the British pound, and JPY for the Japanese yen. Expressing gold as XAU/USD is not informal shorthand. It is how the professional market denominates every gold transaction at the institutional level.
The USD's role as the world's reserve currency and the currency of international commodity markets traces back to the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944, which formally pegged global currencies to the US dollar and the dollar to gold. Although that peg ended in 1971, the dollar's dominance in commodity pricing remained - and has never meaningfully shifted since.
This has a direct consequence for anyone tracking the gold rate in USD: the gold price and the US dollar move in an inverse relationship more often than not. When the dollar strengthens against other major currencies, gold becomes more expensive for buyers holding those currencies, which suppresses international demand and tends to pull the USD price down. When the dollar weakens, the same ounce of gold becomes cheaper in foreign currency terms, demand typically rises, and the USD price tends to move higher.
This is why Federal Reserve meetings, US inflation data, and Treasury yield movements are such significant events for the gold market - they affect the dollar first, and the dollar affects gold almost immediately after. For real-time context on what macro forces are driving the XAU/USD rate on any given day, the gold market commentary is updated every trading session.
The XAU/USD rate is quoted as a per-troy-ounce figure by default - that is the market standard. But gold is bought, sold, appraised, and taxed in a range of weight units depending on market and context. The full per-unit breakdown in USD is available across:
To convert any of these weights into a live USD value for a specific quantity you own or are evaluating, the gold calculator handles all units in real time.
The XAU/USD rate on this page is what every gold investor in the world watches as the primary signal. But what that rate means in practice depends heavily on your home currency. A flat USD gold price can represent a gain for a UK investor if the pound has weakened, or a loss for a Japanese investor if the yen has strengthened - on the same day, from the same market movement.
This is the key function of the sidebar on this page: switching countries converts the live USD rate into your local currency instantly, so you are always looking at the gold price that is actually relevant to your purchasing power. For dedicated per-currency views, the full network of gold price pages covers twelve currencies including gold price in Australian dollars, gold price in British pounds, gold price in Indian rupees, and gold price in Pakistani rupees, each with its own live rate and local market context.
If you are also tracking silver, the silver price in US dollars follows the same structure - live XAG/USD rate per troy ounce with full multi-currency switching.
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