{"id":16024,"date":"2012-10-31T08:17:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T06:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/precious-gold-flat-as-europe-stocks-gains-muted-by-us-sandy\/"},"modified":"2012-10-31T08:17:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T06:17:03","slug":"precious-gold-flat-as-europe-stocks-gains-muted-by-us-sandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/precious-gold-flat-as-europe-stocks-gains-muted-by-us-sandy\/","title":{"rendered":"PRECIOUS-Gold flat as Europe stocks gains muted by US Sandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Traders focus on Friday&#8217;s U.S. non-farm payrolls<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* U.S. financial markets still closed by Hurricane Sandy<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Indian gold importers buy on dips before festivals<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rubber bullets fired at Amplats miners in South Africa<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By David Brough<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Gold prices were little changed<br \/>\non Tuesday as E uropean s tock markets rose and the dollar<br \/>\nweakened, but moves were limited as New York markets remained<br \/>\nclosed due to Hurricane Sandy, and ahead of a key U.S. jobs<br \/>\nreport due later this week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gold took some support from strength in European shares,<br \/>\nwhich were boosted by well-received company reports from BP and<br \/>\nUBS, and the euro, after data showed the Spanish economy<br \/>\ncontracted at a slightly slower rate than forecast in September.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spot gold rose by just 0.6 cents to $1,7 09 . 86 an<br \/>\nounce a t 3 :23 p.m. EST (1900 G MT) . U .S. gold futures for<br \/>\nDecember rose $3. 40 to $1,712. 1 0 .<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But the metal remains on course for its first monthly loss<br \/>\nsince May as a boost from the Federal Reserve&#8217;s latest monetary<br \/>\nstimulus plan &#8211; a potentially inflationary move which would also<br \/>\nmaintain pressure on interest rates &#8211; petered out.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Traders focus on Friday&#8217;s U.S. non-farm payrolls * U.S. financial markets still closed by Hurricane Sandy * Indian gold importers buy on dips before festivals * Rubber bullets fired at Amplats miners in South Africa By David Brough LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Gold prices were little changed on Tuesday as E uropean s [&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-16024","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\/16024","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=16024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}