Gold fell \u2014 after posting its first weekly drop since mid-August \u2014 as progress on a US-China trade deal sapped haven demand.<\/p>\n
Bullion declined as much as 1.3% to near $4,058 an ounce. The US and China signaled they were nearing completion<\/a> of a sweeping deal as President Donald Trump visits Asia for a series of diplomatic engagements. An agreement may ease some of the economic risk and geopolitical tensions that have bolstered the precious metal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gold fell \u2014 after posting its first weekly drop since mid-August \u2014 as progress on a US-China trade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5806,22466,45,49,48,95,5427,14208,10079,2071,84934,114062,100,3849],"class_list":["post-242551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-asia","tag-bank-of-japan-the","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-debt","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-european-central-bank","tag-federal-reserve","tag-generic-1st-gc-future","tag-london-bullion-market-associ","tag-markets","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}