{"id":505572,"date":"2026-02-26T15:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/505572\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:14:13","slug":"gold-price-rally-hands-treasurer-jim-chalmers-budget-revenue-windfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/505572\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold price rally hands Treasurer Jim Chalmers budget revenue windfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A roaring gold price rally is poised to hand Treasurer Jim Chalmers a fresh revenue windfall at the May budget, with bullion overtaking natural gas as Australia\u2019s second-largest export and blowing past Treasury\u2019s most recent forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>Gold prices have surged more than 150 per cent since the start of 2024, driven by heavy buying from emerging-market central banks, expectations of lower interest rates and a rush into safe-haven assets amid rising geopolitical tensions and trade fragmentation caused by the Trump administration\u2019s tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A roaring gold price rally is poised to hand Treasurer Jim Chalmers a fresh revenue windfall at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-505572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505572","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=505572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}