Spot gold stops trading around 5:00 pm ET on Friday and stays frozen through Saturday. This page tracks the moment it wakes up — Sunday around 6:00 pm ET — when the first new price of the week appears and any weekend news is settled in one move.
What happens to gold over the weekend
Physical dealers keep selling on weekends, but they price off Friday's close plus their own margin, widening spreads to cover the risk of Monday's gap. The true market price simply does not exist again until futures and spot desks reopen on Sunday evening.
Reading the Sunday reopen
A gap up at the reopen usually reflects weekend risk events or a softer dollar; a gap down suggests calm or profit-taking. Because early liquidity is thin, the first hour can overshoot. Pair it with Bitcoin, the only market that traded through the weekend, to judge whether the move is part of a broader risk shift.