{"id":228879,"date":"2026-01-26T11:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=228879"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:57:46","slug":"gold-breaks-5000-barrier-in-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/228879\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold breaks $5,000 barrier in record high"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gold surged to a record high above $5,000 an ounce on Monday, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Spot gold climbed 1.5% to $5,058.09 per ounce, after touching an all-time high of $5,092.71 earlier.<\/p>\n

The metal soared 64% in 2025, its biggest annual gain since 1979, driven by safe-haven demand, US monetary policy easing, robust central bank purchases including China’s fourteenth straight month of buying in December, and record inflows into exchange-traded funds.<\/p>\n

Prices have risen more than 17% this year.<\/p>\n

The latest catalyst “is effectively this crisis of confidence in the U.S. administration and U.S. assets, that was set off by some of the erratic decision-making from the Trump administration last week”, said Kyle Rodda, a senior market analyst at Capital.com.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gold surged to a record high above $5,000 an ounce on Monday, Reuters writes. Spot gold climbed 1.5% to $5,058.09 per ounce, after touching an all-time high of $5,092.71 earlier. The metal soared 64% in 2025, its biggest annual gain since 1979, driven by safe-haven demand, US monetary policy easing, robust central bank purchases including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":228858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,101,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-economy","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228880,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228879\/revisions\/228880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}