{"id":9949,"date":"2011-03-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/03\/08\/gold-price-hits-record-high\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:00:00","slug":"gold-price-hits-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/03\/08\/gold-price-hits-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Price Hits Record High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED KINGDOM, March 1, 2011: The price of gold has hit a record high as investors worry about the political turmoil in Libya and spreading tensions across the Middle East. The price on the London Bullion Market jumped more than $14 to $1,434.50 an ounce. Gold is traditionally seen as a haven for investors in times of uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Unrest across the Middle East and North Africa fueled a 6% rise in gold prices during February. Analysts said that the political problems were pushing oil prices higher and fanning concerns about inflation and slower global economic growth. &#8216;What gold needed was a catalyst, and it found it in the form of tensions that are surfacing in the Middle East and rising oil prices,&#8217; said Mark Luschini from the brokerage Janney Montgomery Scott.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-12616290'>Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED KINGDOM, March 1, 2011: The price of gold has hit a record high as investors worry about the political,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}