{"id":23499,"date":"2011-07-13T05:57:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T09:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23499"},"modified":"2011-07-13T05:57:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T09:57:32","slug":"gold-price-climbs-to-1553-euro-crisis-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2011\/gold-price-climbs-to-1553-euro-crisis-escalates.html","title":{"rendered":"Gold Price Climbs to $1,553, Euro Crisis Escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOLD PRICE NEWS \u2013 The gold price climbed $9.11 to $1,553.31 Monday amid growing fears over the European sovereign debt crisis.\u00a0 The\u00a0price of gold rose to as high as $1,557.20 per ounce this morning, just 1.3% shy of its $1,577.40 all-time record high, reached on May 2 of this year.\u00a0 Equity markets around the world tumbled, while U.S. exchanges were set to open substantially lower.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the gold price, the U.S. dollar was one of the few asset classes moving higher on Monday.\u00a0 The euro currency came under considerable pressure against the dollar, falling 1.4% to 1.4022.\u00a0 Silver prices held near unchanged at $36.71 per ounce, while cyclical commodities including oil and copper suffered steep declines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldalert.com\/2011\/07\/gold-price-climbs-to-1553-euro-crisis-escalates\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOLD PRICE NEWS \u2013 The gold price climbed $9.11 to $1,553.31 Monday amid growing fears over the European sovereign debt crisis.\u00a0 The\u00a0price of gold rose to as high as $1,557.20 per ounce this morning, just 1.3% shy of its $1,577.40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23503,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499\/revisions\/23503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}