{"id":8849,"date":"2012-03-13T03:07:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T01:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/platinum-futures-nose-above-gold-first-since-sept\/"},"modified":"2012-03-13T03:07:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T01:07:27","slug":"platinum-futures-nose-above-gold-first-since-sept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/platinum-futures-nose-above-gold-first-since-sept\/","title":{"rendered":"Platinum futures nose above gold, first since Sept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, March 12<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Platinum futures traded<br \/>\nat a modest premium to gold for the first time since September<br \/>\non Monday, swept higher by a rally that has added 5 percent to<br \/>\nthe platinum price in the last week.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most-active April platinum futures rose by 0.9<br \/>\npercent on the day to $1,699.00 an ounce by 1600 GMT, pushing<br \/>\ntheir discount to gold to $1.00 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The spread briefly touched a premium of $2.00, the first<br \/>\ntime platinum has traded above the most-active gold futures<br \/>\ncontract since last September<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Supply disruptions due to an illegal strike at the largest<br \/>\nmine in top supplier South Africa, Impala Platinum&#8217;s<br \/>\nRustenburg facility, have removed nearly 200,000 ounces of metal<br \/>\nfrom the market, prompting investors to take a more upbeat view<br \/>\nof the outlook for the platinum price this year.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Amanda Cooper, 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, March 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Platinum futures traded at a modest premium to gold for the first time since September on Monday, swept higher by a rally that has added 5 percent to the platinum price in the last week. Most-active April platinum futures rose by 0.9 percent on the day to $1,699.00 an ounce [&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-8849","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\/8849","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=8849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}