{"id":246224,"date":"2026-03-23T11:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=246224"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:03:07","slug":"gold-prices-drop-over-5-amid-conflict-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/246224\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold prices drop over 5% amid conflict in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gold slid more than 5% on Monday, ‌reaching its weakest level of 2026, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Spot gold fell 5.8% to $4,226.16 per ounce.<\/p>\n

The metal dropped more than 10% last week, its worst week since February 1983, ⁠and has also retreated more than 20% from its record peak of $5,594.82 an ounce reached on January 29.<\/p>\n

The decline comes against the backdrop of inflation caused by escalating conflicts in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gold slid more than 5% on Monday, ‌reaching its weakest level of 2026, Reuters writes. Spot gold fell 5.8% to $4,226.16 per ounce. The metal dropped more than 10% last week, its worst week since February 1983, ⁠and has also retreated more than 20% from its record peak of $5,594.82 an ounce reached on January […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":246200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,96,98,47,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-iran-en","category-other-en","category-society","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246224","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=246224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246233,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246224\/revisions\/246233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}