{"id":13978,"date":"2012-08-28T15:21:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T13:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/precious-gold-steady-near-4-month-high-focus-on-central-banks\/"},"modified":"2012-08-28T15:21:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T13:21:13","slug":"precious-gold-steady-near-4-month-high-focus-on-central-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/precious-gold-steady-near-4-month-high-focus-on-central-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"PRECIOUS-Gold steady near 4-month high, focus on central banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Updates prices)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gold near highest since April<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* ETP holdings hit record highs; options show investors<br \/>\nbullish<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Platinum near highest since early May on Lonmin stoppage<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Coming up: U.S. August consumer confidence; 1400 GMT<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Amanda Cooper<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Gold steadied around its highest<br \/>\nin four months on Tuesday ahead of a meeting of central bankers<br \/>\nat the weekend that could outline the likely course of U.S.<br \/>\nmonetary policy, while a stoppage at a major mine kept platinum<br \/>\nnear 3-1\/2 month highs.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So far in August, gold has gained 3.1 percent, putting it on<br \/>\ncourse for its third successive monthly increase and the largest<br \/>\npercentage rise in one month since January, fuelled in large<br \/>\npart by an expectation for the U.S. Federal Reserve and the<br \/>\nEuropean Central Bank to take extra steps to keep borrowing<br \/>\ncosts low.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Central bankers and finance ministers from around the world<br \/>\nare scheduled to meet at Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Aug. 31 and<br \/>\nSept. 1, and investors expect speeches by Fed Chairman Ben<br \/>\nBernanke to signal what measures the central bank might take and<br \/>\nspecifically, whether it will buy bonds to grease the wheels of<br \/>\nthe financial system by suppressing interest rates.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Updates prices) * Gold near highest since April * ETP holdings hit record highs; options show investors bullish * Platinum near highest since early May on Lonmin stoppage * Coming up: U.S. August consumer confidence; 1400 GMT By Amanda Cooper LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Gold steadied around its highest in four months on Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}