{"id":7628,"date":"2012-02-04T01:40:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T23:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/gold-prices-fall-down-1-after-us-payrolls-data\/"},"modified":"2012-02-04T01:40:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T23:40:07","slug":"gold-prices-fall-down-1-after-us-payrolls-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/gold-prices-fall-down-1-after-us-payrolls-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold prices fall, down 1% after US payrolls data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Feb 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Gold prices extended losses<br \/>\non Friday and were down 1 percent after forecast-beating U.S.<br \/>\nnon-farm payrolls data dented expectations that the world&#8217;s<br \/>\nbiggest economy would further extend its loose monetary policy.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gold has benefited this year from expectations that the<br \/>\nFederal Reserve will keep U.S. interest rates lower for longer<br \/>\nand might consider another round of quantitative easing. Signs<br \/>\nof strength in the U.S. economy make that less likely.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spot gold was down 0.9 percent at $1,744.71 an ounce<br \/>\nat 1454 GMT, having fallen as low as $1,741.59. Earlier it<br \/>\npeaked at $1,762.90, its highest since mid-November.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jan Harvey, editing by Jane Baird)<\/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 Feb 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Gold prices extended losses on Friday and were down 1 percent after forecast-beating U.S. non-farm payrolls data dented expectations that the world&#8217;s biggest economy would further extend its loose monetary policy. Gold has benefited this year from expectations that the Federal Reserve will keep U.S. interest rates lower for longer [&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-7628","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\/7628","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=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}