{"id":454773,"date":"2026-02-03T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/454773\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T02:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:00:11","slug":"markets-fragile-as-ai-concerns-fluctuating-precious-metals-leave-investors-wary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/454773\/","title":{"rendered":"Markets fragile as AI concerns, fluctuating precious metals leave investors wary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the surface, global markets started the new week looking totally fine.<\/p>\n<p>More than fine, actually. European markets pushed higher. Britain\u2019s FTSE 100 Index of blue chips hit a record high. In the US, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5nz06\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the S&amp;P 500 also pushed towards record territory.<\/a> Oil dropped sharply, which is always good for economic growth and earnings outside the energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the surface, global markets started the new week looking totally fine. More than fine, actually. European markets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-454773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}