{"id":16447,"date":"2012-11-06T20:37:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T18:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/precious-gold-hovers-near-9-week-low-eyes-u-s-vote\/"},"modified":"2012-11-06T20:37:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T18:37:20","slug":"precious-gold-hovers-near-9-week-low-eyes-u-s-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/precious-gold-hovers-near-9-week-low-eyes-u-s-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"PRECIOUS-Gold hovers near 9-week low; eyes U.S. vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Investors mull impact of U.S. election on fiscal cliff<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Indian gold importers await price direction<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By David Brough<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Nov 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Gold steadied near a nine-week low<br \/>\non Tuesday as investors assessed potential policy impact from<br \/>\nthe neck-and-neck U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spot gold rose 0.48 percent to $1,692.05 by 1349 GMT,<br \/>\nbut stayed close to Monday&#8217;s nine-week low of $1,672.24. U.S.<br \/>\ngold futures for December rose $9.00 to $1,692.20.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prices slid more than 2 percent on Friday after<br \/>\nstronger-than-expected U.S. jobs data lifted the dollar.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Investors were also alert to the start of a 48-hour strike<br \/>\non Tuesday by tens of thousands of Greek workers to protest a<br \/>\nnew round of austerity cuts.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney<br \/>\nface the verdict of U.S. voters on Tuesday after a long and<br \/>\nbitter White House campaign, with polls showing them deadlocked<br \/>\nin a race that will be decided in a handful of states where it<br \/>\nis extraordinarily close.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some analysts say a win by Obama could boost bullion,<br \/>\nkeeping Ben Bernanke at the helm of the Federal Reserve and<br \/>\nmaintaining ultra-easy monetary policy, while a win by Romney<br \/>\nwould be a positive for stocks on business-friendly policies and<br \/>\ntax cuts.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Investors mull impact of U.S. election on fiscal cliff * Indian gold importers await price direction By David Brough LONDON, Nov 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Gold steadied near a nine-week low on Tuesday as investors assessed potential policy impact from the neck-and-neck U.S. presidential election. Spot gold rose 0.48 percent to $1,692.05 by 1349 GMT, [&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-16447","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\/16447","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=16447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}