{"id":14550,"date":"2012-09-12T16:16:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/precious-platinum-hits-5-month-high-as-s-africa-unrest-spreads\/"},"modified":"2012-09-12T16:16:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:16:42","slug":"precious-platinum-hits-5-month-high-as-s-africa-unrest-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/precious-platinum-hits-5-month-high-as-s-africa-unrest-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"PRECIOUS-Platinum hits 5-month high as S.Africa unrest spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Updates prices, adds Amplats developments)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Platinum hits highest since mid-April<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Amplats access blocked by strikers<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gold at highest since late Feb as euro rallies<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Coming up: U.S. Aug. import\/export prices; 1230 GMT<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Amanda Cooper<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Platinum was set for its<br \/>\nbiggest one-day rally in a month on Wednesday after South<br \/>\nAfrican police said striking miners had blockaded roads leading<br \/>\nto shafts belonging to number one producer Anglo American<br \/>\nPlatinum.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The gold price rose to its highest since late February after<br \/>\nGermany&#8217;s constitutional court approved the country&#8217;s<br \/>\nparticipation in the permanent euro zone bailout fund, which<br \/>\nboosted the euro against the dollar.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Reuters photographer at Amplats&#8217; Bathopele mine, which is<br \/>\npart of the Rustenburg complex, said around 1,500 stick-waving<br \/>\nprotesters demonstrated outside the facility, calling for its<br \/>\nimmediate shutdown.<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, adds Amplats developments) * Platinum hits highest since mid-April * Amplats access blocked by strikers * Gold at highest since late Feb as euro rallies * Coming up: U.S. Aug. import\/export prices; 1230 GMT By Amanda Cooper LONDON, Sept. 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Platinum was set for its biggest one-day rally in a month [&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-14550","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\/14550","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=14550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}