{"id":49133,"date":"2025-05-22T18:34:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=49133"},"modified":"2025-05-22T18:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:34:38","slug":"gold-prices-ease-from-two-week-high-as-dollar-edges-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/gold-prices-ease-from-two-week-high-as-dollar-edges-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Prices Ease from Two-week High as Dollar Edges Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gold slipped on Thursday after hitting a nearly two-week high earlier in the session, hurt by an uptick in the dollar, although worries over the US government&#8217;s increasing debt burden and fiscal outlook kept prices above $3,300 level.<\/p>\n<p>Spot gold was down 0.3% at $3,303.82 an ounce, as of 1020 GMT, after hitting its highest level since May 9 earlier in the session.<\/p>\n<p>US gold futures fell 0.3% to $3,304.10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Selling coming in especially from those looking to book profits and a degree of recovery in the dollar seems to have taken some of the shine off gold,&#8221; Ross Norman, an independent analyst said, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The dollar index edged up 0.2% against its rivals, making greenback-priced bullion more expensive for other currency holders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are concerns about the way the US is managing its debt issue and one would expect gold to remain relatively firm if the markets take these tax cuts in a negative way,&#8221; Norman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold slipped on Thursday after hitting a nearly two-week high earlier in the session, hurt by an uptick in the dollar, although worries over the US government&#8217;s increasing debt burden and fiscal outlook kept prices above $3,300 level. Spot gold was down 0.3% at $3,303.82 an ounce, as of 1020 GMT, after hitting its highest &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49135,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49133\/revisions\/49135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}