{"id":14558,"date":"2012-09-12T16:16:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/platinum-priced-in-rand-hits-high-for-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-09-12T16:16:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:16:48","slug":"platinum-priced-in-rand-hits-high-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/platinum-priced-in-rand-hits-high-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Platinum priced in rand hits high for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, Sept 12<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Platinum priced in rand rose by<br \/>\n3.3 percent to reach its highest level so far this year on<br \/>\nWednesday, boosted by the weakness in the currency and by<br \/>\nspreading violence and unrest in the South African mining<br \/>\nindustry.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Platinum priced in rand was up at 13,405.7 rand<br \/>\nan ounce, its highest since mid-November, set for its largest<br \/>\none-day gain in a month.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rand was last down 0.4 percent against the<br \/>\ndollar, but still held around one-month highs against the U.S.<br \/>\ncurrency.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South African police said striking miners had blockaded<br \/>\nroads leading to shafts belonging to Anglo American Platinum<br \/>\n, the world&#8217;s largest platinum producer. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Amanda Cooper)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Sept 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Platinum priced in rand rose by 3.3 percent to reach its highest level so far this year on Wednesday, boosted by the weakness in the currency and by spreading violence and unrest in the South African mining industry. Platinum priced in rand was up at 13,405.7 rand an ounce, its [&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-14558","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\/14558","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=14558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}