{"id":21676,"date":"2025-12-26T08:31:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/gold-rise-above-4-500-per-ounce\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:40","slug":"gold-rise-above-4-500-per-ounce","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/gold-rise-above-4-500-per-ounce\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold rise above $4 500 per ounce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Gold rose to over $4 500 per ounce\u00a0on Friday, rising by 6%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">At the close of the markets on Christmas eve, gold was trading at $4 486 and platinum at $2 289 per ounce.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">According to Reuters, gold has staged a strong rally this year, recording its biggest annual gain since 1979.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">It is fuelled by Federal Reserve policy easing, geopolitical uncertainty, strong Central bank demand, rising Exchange-Traded Fund\u00a0holdings, and ongoing de-dollarisation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16343,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-21676","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Gold price","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25254,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21676\/revisions\/25254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}