{"id":188893,"date":"2025-12-17T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/188893\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:00:12","slug":"gold-prices-rise-following-higher-than-expected-us-unemployment-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/188893\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold prices rise following higher-than-expected US unemployment rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Ebkerian, COO of Allegiance Gold, predicted that if gold prices close above $4,400 by the end of 2025, they could reach $4,859-$5,590 in 2026. He also suggested that silver may test $50 per ounce again next year.<\/p>\n<p>Spot silver prices fell 0.3% to $63.75 per ounce, down from a record high of $64.65 on Friday. Platinum surged by 4% to $1,854.95, marking the highest level since September 2011, while palladium increased by 2.5% to $1,606.41, hitting a two-month high.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Platinum metals are rising due to tight supply and growing demand,&#8221; Ebkerian said.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765954812_110_lg-webp.webp\" alt=\"Gold prices rise following higher-than-expected US unemployment rate\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 showcaption-false\" style=\"width: 1300px; height: 731px;\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/p>\n<p>Morning update (December 17, 2025):<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg reported that gold prices rose by 0.1% to $4,306.05 at 7:23 AM Singapore time, still within $80 of the record high of $4,381.52 in October. Silver prices fell by 0.1% to $63.70, while platinum slipped slightly, and palladium increased. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index closed the previous session down by 0.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Gold prices have stabilized as the weak US job data on Tuesday did not significantly affect expectations of further rate cuts. Gold remains near $4,305 per ounce, following a slight dip in the previous session, halting a five-day upward streak. The latest economic data shows a continued slowdown in the US labor market, but the Fed is perceived to be giving less weight to these numbers due to the effects of the government shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Ebkerian, COO of Allegiance Gold, predicted that if gold prices close above $4,400 by the end of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[220,114,5275,85,46,20679,49243,13467,2844],"class_list":["post-188893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-breaking-news","tag-business","tag-gold-prices","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-rate-cuts","tag-speculation","tag-twice","tag-unemployment-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}