Gold investors earned a 17 percent price return over one year, with the price per tola rising from 241,500 rupees on Kartik 24 last year to 284,300 rupees now. The report, dated Kartik 24 in Kathmandu, frames this as the one-year gain in the Nepali market. Its headline also says silver delivered an even higher return, though no silver figures are given in the available text.