{"id":251943,"date":"2026-01-26T03:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251943\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T03:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:58:09","slug":"gold-prices-rushes-to-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251943\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold prices rushes to record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JZR86E_251010_Gold_3_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Gold bars\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone\n<\/p>\n<p>Gold jumped to a record high, topping the US$5000 an ounce milestone extending a historic rally as investors sought the safe-haven asset amid rising geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n<p>Escalating friction between the US and NATO over Greenland has further fueled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/business\/513222\/kiwis-take-advantage-of-record-gold-prices-cash-in-investments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gold&#8217;s run<\/a> this year over prospects of more financial and geopolitical uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>The yellow metal soared 64 percent in 2025, underpinned by US monetary policy easing, central bank demand &#8211; with China extending its gold-buying spree for a fourteenth month in December &#8211; and record inflows into exchange-traded-funds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our forecast for the year is that gold will see a high of $6,400 an ounce with an average of $5,375,&#8221; independent analyst Ross Norman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone Gold jumped to a record high, topping the US$5000 an ounce milestone extending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[48,138,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-251943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-current-affairs","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-podcasts","16":"tag-public-radio","17":"tag-radio-new-zealand","18":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}